To be fair, if you graduate in four years, and are alright with state universities or community colleges, and major in some kind of field that allows you to be an engineer, university doesn't have to put you in lifelong debt. Many students do community college for the first two years, and then finish at a university, and end up on the order of ~$30,000 of debt. That's a lot of money, but generally not a life-ruining amount for an engineer.
That's not even counting the weird universities like WGU, where you can get a bachelors for less than ~$15,000 without too much trouble.
That's not even counting the weird universities like WGU, where you can get a bachelors for less than ~$15,000 without too much trouble.