Why I Chose College Essay

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Many students go to college, mostly after high school. It has been common that every student at least apply or attend colleges for a semester or more, regardless if they want it or not to seek opportunities for their future. However, since what the world want is changing, the necessity of college education is on the way to downward trend. When college was first established, its primary purpose was to provide higher and more professional education than high school with more opportunities. At that time, especially during industrial revolution, the knowledge was the primary focus for the companies. So the college was suitable to those who need to study more in depth at specific field. However, along with the knowledge is accessible to everyone with revolution of world wide network, being no longer a privilege of college education, increasing number of college students made college a mandatory life step to everyone, even if they want to run into the field directly from high school. This resulted in the college graduates mostly do not end up with the jobs that are not related to their intended major. And because there are a lot of students who landed on the unrelated jobs, going to college became …show more content…

In fact, even if students graduated from college, unless they gained master’s or PhD, most companies will not consider the students as professionally experienced, but as just beginners, so the company will educate them again anyway. So that students spent so much money, whereas students with more practical experience while college students were studying will be more professional in the field. Unless students figure out ways to get professional certificate, such as PhD or master’s degree, just college education is worthless nowadays and it only serves as degree provider for students to get any job. (elaborate