The Pros And Cons Of College Tuition

Believe it or not, the land of the free is truly not free. According to a report by Bloomberg, since 1978, college tuition has gone up by a dramatic 1,120%. Because our college tuition is rapidly rising at an uncontrollable rate, it should be lowered considering it is proliferating at a pace that students can no longer pay for it. Tuition gives students unneeded pressure and problems, and there are ways to give colleges more money--aside from the students. Foremost, college tuition is rising at an alarming rate that is becoming nearly impossible to pay for it. Due to this, many students are in need of loans. According to the Institute for College Access & Success, 66% of graduates from public colleges had student loans. 75% of graduates

“According to a 2008 mental health study by the Associated Press and mtvU, eight in 10 college students say they have sometimes or frequently experienced stress in their daily lives over the past three months. This is an increase of 20% from a survey five years ago.” According to this, by now in 2018 more students would be not only be contemplating suicide, those people would have in a smaller time span. The experience of Jessica Hembree, a college student in the University of Georgia, is one that expresses the stress of students. “Athens resident Jessica Hembree, who wants to become a doctor, began her college career last year but she took this semester off. Why? She wanted, needed, to save money to pay the additional thousands of dollars it will cost her to attend the University of Georgia this fall. Hembree, 19, is working three part-time jobs, putting in about 40 hours a week, yet she hasn’t saved up as much as she’d like.” This quote expresses that some students, including Hembree, are forced to stop or limit their education from financial reasonings. And even though someone like Hembree is in pursue of an education and is willing to struggle and undergo all the stress of working job to job, these people are still unable to achieve an education due to the lack of money. “Your education is worth it, but at the end of the day, it’s stressful,” said Hembree, who began her college education at the

Without doing so, our college graduate rates will continue to drop before our eyes. Which will lead to fewer workers in America. According to a recent study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the workforce, “at current levels of production, the U.S. economy will have a shortfall of 5 million college-educated workers by 2020.” Unsurprisingly enough, about “65 percent of all jobs will require bachelor’s or associate’s degrees or some other education beyond high school, particularly in the fastest growing occupations—science, technology, engineering, mathematics, healthcare, and community service.” While the United States is in need of more workers with these type of degrees, the college prices have not lowered it, has grown. And while we’re struggling to maintain our high school dropout rates to as minimum as possible, other countries are succeeding in college educational attainment. While older adults exit the working force when they retire our economic achievement will begin to drop as our college tuition continue to