I’m going to assume that your loans are federal. In your refusal to re-pay them, the college, which allegedly sold you a “lemon” of an education, won’t bear a single penny of that loss. It will be 100% borne by your fellow citizens.

As I said in my comment, you seem to be confusing a 4–yr degree with Vo-tech. If your Associates in auto repair at a 2-yr school did not teach you well enough to even get a job at Jiffy Lube, you’d be right to be angry.

But a 4-yr degree? It’s NOT a vocational program, it’s an education program. Leveraging that into gainful employment is YOUR job.

As a side-note, being “up to date on the latest technology” is not a requirement, or even an expectation, for colleges. My degree was in Computer Engineering (a program dependent on technology if there is one) in the late ‘90’s. My Programming Languages textbook? Copyright ’83. I took a class in FORTRAN, and it was the version dating to the year I was born. Computer Systems Design? The Intel 8080, first released in 1974. In my lab classes, it was analog oscilloscopes, meters, etc., none of which were less than twenty years old. And this was at a school famous for its engineering program; it was not some neglected department with no funding or attention.

Unless your college was forcing you to write on a slate with a stylus in Chaucerian English, the technology used was not a problem.

You are looking at excuses to not pay for your degree; nothing more, nothing less. You don’t get to decide what’s “fair”.