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Earning a college degree is expensive. Millions of Americans continue to struggle to pay tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt. To make matters worse, many workers later end up regretting the major they chose during college. Recently, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board surveyed 11,000 American adults for its latest annual Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households report.