College Is Still Worth It Cost Too Much

For the longest time it has seemed that people, of higher authority, constantly tell the younger generations how important college is. Getting people those high paying jobs and successful careers that will keep you from working in a fast food restaurant. Yet, times have changed and college is becoming less promising, not always guaranteeing a high paying job and leaving people in deep amounts of debt. Students go into college with the mentality of graduating to be successful and to have a stable job to support themselves, but that is not always the case. Although, many people go to college to work higher skilled and higher paying jobs it does not guarantee success; therefore, people need to stop relying on college to be successful. College

In the very statistical article Why College is Still Worth it Even Though it Costs Too Much by Liz Weston data on graduates is presented. It is not indicating that the education itself is not worth it, due to how they are “not making” as much as they “spent on school” (Weston).It seems that “graduates who took out more than $50,000 in loans were unlikely to agree that their degrees were worth what they paid” (Weston, Reuters). Unfortunately only those fortunate enough to take the less amount of loans see a return, and think it is worth it.Times have changed and college is becoming less promising, not always guaranteeing a high paying job. Not only did they go to school to get a higher paying job, it seems as if they did not really want to be stuck in this “huge debt” that they “won’t even be able to pay off” due to not having a “higher paying job” (Rox). In this case, the economic return is not there, which only adds on to the concern of money and whether college will actually let them acquire those higher paying jobs and

Not only do they get those recent jobs, but those jobs are for the higher skilled people who usually tend to get paid much more. David Leonhardt makes the claim in his New York Times article, that is based on the wage gaps between those who went to college and those who did not, that the “pay gaps between college grads and everyone else” is by far larger than ever (Leonhardt). Indicating that college is helpful, yet just because they gain those jobs, does not mean they will be able to maintain them. Although those with a high school diploma are getting jobs, most of them are not getting the high paying jobs that require more skill. Then again, just because college graduates are, it does not account for most. Thought needs to be put in on how unfair it would be for someone with a lower skill set can have the job that you are after even with the acquired skill set. It all comes back to how graduates need to stop reassuring themselves that “their piece of paper” will do all the work for them. But as it remains, the amount of jobless “college grads is far more less than” those who are not (Paquette). Illustrating that although college might not always be worth it for everyone, so far for most it is working out as they at least have a