College Cost Too Much

College Cost Too Much

Many students go to college with a dream, which is to live a better life in the future. In college, students select a major they like and hopefully after four years of college, they are able to find a job that is related to their major and make considerable income. That is most people’s dream, but in the real world, there are only a few people who find the job that is exactly what they love to do. Many high school students still believe that college is the only path to follow to allow them to become successful and live better life in the future. Although high school students go to four years of college to provide them with a better job satisfaction and train them to have critical thinking skills, college is not worth the costs because it is too expensive, take too much time, and also does not necessarily mean they will find a job.

People spend their whole lifetime making money and paying off their debts and bills, and going to college can create a large amount of debts in one’s very early life time. In the article, “What’s the value of a college education? It depends” by Jennifer Barrett, she states, “Even state schools now cost students nearly $19,000 per year on average a more than 100 percent increase over the last 25 years.” Barrett points out that state school, started have getting more expensive each year, and that leads to a big problem; as a high school students who has just graduated from high school, they are not be able to pay the bill by themselves, so they either take a loan from the bank or their parents pay the bill for them. If a student takes 4 years of college and each year costs $19,000, then total will be $76,000, and after graduating from college it will take at least a few years to pay off these loans. Some students take a longer time in the school than others, what means that they will accrue more loans. In the same article, Barrett argues, “That’s put college increasingly out of reach for many families, who have turned to personal savings and student loans to make up the difference, sending student debt levels to a record $1.2 trillion last year and putting their own retirement saves in jeopardy.” Some students have to do part time job to pay their school payments, and at the same times they also need to study hard to change their life which make them have more though time than the others. Obviously many families are not able to afford the cost of college and college put students themselves into debts, it also pulls their families into debt.

Many people graduate, from four years of college which usually takes more than four years, and with some hard major even taking longer. In the article “ We Send Too Many Students To College” Marty Nemko states that “According to the U.S. Department of Education, if you graduated in the bottom 40 percent of your high school class and went to college, 70 of 100 won’t a diploma,