"Adult" College Students

At 25 years of age, I am one of the youngest at my college Metropolitan State University. The reason why the majority is mostly middle-aged students - people in this country who typically work during weekday mornings and afternoons -  is partly because this particular university has most of its classes at night, Saturdays, and online. However, the trend nationwide over the past five years, including the community college I graduated from last year, is more and more Americans in their 30+'s returning, or for their first time starting, college. This increase of "adult" students in the college world is hugely due to the recession that started in 2008 and the newly massive availability of online classes, or both. More jobs are requiring college degrees but also, just like my new boss's situation of having a degree in advertising but now taking a Speech class also at Metropolitan State University, more career fields need people to have additional skills in other subjects other than their major, also that only formal education can give.