Summary: The Truth About Tuition

The Truth About Tuition It’s hard being a student these days. “As competition heats up in the education services industry both in the U.S. and internationally higher education institutions have become increasingly interested in the perceived affordability of the price of tuition and other associated costs” (The Impact 5). Colleges and universities are basically competing to have the highest tuition and fees to make themselves look more prestigious. Because of this competition, most students can’t afford today’s college tuition. Now, people are wanting to be granted free tuition. On the other hand, students can possibly have access to free tuition, but it may come at a price. How can that be fair? Students are either going to have to

As stated in The Impact Of Cost On College Choice, hypothesis two, “cost savings (transportation and room and board) that come from an ability to commute a short distance to college have a significant impact on a student’s likelihood to apply to a college” (The Impact 6). One of the many reasons tuition and fees are so high is due to the need for public transportation and need for room and board. Most students tend to go to college pretty far from home, causing them to need somewhere to live and a means of transportation whether that transportation be their own car or provided by the school. If they drive their own car, they have to get a parking pass. If they take public transportation, their fees are covering the fuel and maintenance on the buses. We students also want good professors to teach us, so we need to pay however much a good professor is asking for. Professors these days aren’t cheap! Tuition is a good thing because it pays to keep the college running. Universities have to pay for staff to help the student get educated. If that student wants to live on campus he/she probably doesn’t want to live in a dump. The college has to have money to keep up with the dorms. Money doesn’t grow on

Today students are marching for free tuition. “It is important to stress that the current tuition rates are inflated because schools increase their sticker price in order to subsidize institutional financial aid for low-income students and to provide merit aid for wealthy, high-scoring students” (Samuels). So basically they are trying to get everything they can out of the more comfortable students, but some low-income students can’t get enough financial aid to survive. Thus making it hard for the low-income students to get the right education they are paying for. It makes them having to get one or two jobs, making them slack on their education. That being said this is why we need free tuition. More people will get an education, it 'd be fair for everywhere whether they 're rich or poor. We can take a look at Finland because they have free tuition, and they have been successful with it. “There were five major components to Finland’s success: all education became public and free; teachers became well compensated and highly trained; education became interactive and experienced based; students at an early age received individual attention; and in high school, students were able to choose if they wanted to pursue a vocational track or an academic track” (Samuels). For instance, by making education free, it took all of the financial stress