Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, the greatest influential tech business leaders of our generation, as well as, the most successful college dropouts of all-time. With the rising university tuition fees becoming a common trend among universities all across the globe, many millennials might become inspired by their journeys and begin to question whether a college degree is genuinely worth the investment. Despite a great deal of dissatisfaction concerning the high-cost of university, students are nevertheless aware of the importance of obtaining a higher degree in our demanding generation. Notably, 84.78% of students surveyed at the American University of Sharjah (Feb. 15, 2017) declared that a college degree is a critical and crucial asset to possess. Although some students may find the high-cost justifiable owing to the advanced technological learning techniques utilized in …show more content…
Relevant to the supply and demand chain, when a certain field is in high demand, the fees for the specific field are raised. Accordingly, students are compelled to choose a field that they are impassionate about for the sake of earning a college degree. The research organized by the National Education Opportunities Network demonstrates that if fees were reduced to a lower budget, 45% of respondents would choose a different path (Dr. Atherton, Dr. Jones & Hall, 2015, p. 26). Generally, the least in-demand fields are those pertaining to the non-technical fields of arts, humanities, and the liberal arts. Hence, students driven into these fields face high unemployment rates and low return wages due to the lack of job offers present in these disciplines, therefore, defeating the ultimate purpose of striving to obtain a bachelor’s degree. Many may begin to question whether a higher degree is as good as an investment as most people make it out to