Essays on Higher Education

With tuition rising yearly, and students facing the challenge of paying the debt achieving a college degree comes with. ‘Student debt surpassed credit-card debt in June 2010 for the first time in history, rising to about $830 billion — or nearly 6% of the nation’s…

Parents have engraved the thought of college into our heads for a while, but why? Is it because they want us to become the next Thomas Edison? All they want us to do is have a flimsy piece of paper that says you graduated college,…

In this article Owen and Sawhill talk about should everyone go to college. He talks about how research suggests that additional education improves people’s overall well-being. One of the most important takeaways on the pay scale is that not every bachelor’s degree is a smart…

Education is a very important tool that every teen should obtain. Graduating from high school and thinking about heading off to college can be a scary time. For many high school seniors, going to college after graduation is a given. But going to college immediately…

According to Nitro College, Americans now owe more than $1.53 trillion in student loan debt. Many students struggle to maintain good grades along with trying to work either full-time or part-time to pay off school. Some people don’t even get the opportunity to attend college…

Schooling is a great portion of many lives, whether it’s only as a child, or going back to try for a better life. Through school some lifelong friends can be made, it is the time you grow and network yourself and truly develop a version…

The college has proven to be a highlight in some people’s lives, as it should be to those who make the most out of it. Students should be aware that college should not be free, it is for people who work hard, and by that…

A master’s degree used to be the ticket to success when it came to one’s future, but now being successful can be achieved by the touch of one’s fingertips. The chances are nowadays that finding all the same types of classes and unique ways of…

  How many multimillionaires achieved success without having finished college or even attending in the first place? The answer to this question is that there are countless. The number of non-colleges today educated individuals achieving success today is incredibly astounding. In an article, “Is College…

The big question that many American citizens face when thinking about higher education is “what is the worth of a college degree?” As the job market changes and other routes of making money become available the necessity of a college degree lowers. The narrative presented…