Fourteen years ago, the romantic comedy Legally Blonde was released, telling the story of Elle Woods, a ditzy sorority girl who follows her ex-boyfriend, Warner, to Harvard Law School in hopes of proving to him that she is not just another dumb blonde and winning him back. Elle studies hard, forgets about Warner, and ends up graduating as valedictorian with job offers from multiple prestigious law firms. While making audiences laugh, the movie also inspired those who were undervalued and doubted by others to go to college, with the message that if they studied and worked hard enough, anything is possible. However, regardless of work ethic and intelligence, this aspiration is impossible for most. Even if one is accepted into their dream university, there is still the underlying issue of how they will pay for their education. For many, college is an important step in achieving success, but paying for a high-quality college education is impossible. Even for those who find a way to pay, their chances of success are sabotaged by the price of their degree, despite the importance of a college education. Although in the twenty-first century there is significant emphasis on the necessity of a college degree, qualified students are prevented from reaching their full potential because of the rising cost of a college education. College prices are rapidly rising; public four-year college tuitions are rising at an average of 5.6% every year, while public two-year college tuitions are
With this increase in tuition costs it is making a college education more and more unaffordable and putting students in more debt.
Over the past decade, it has become evident to the students of the United States that in order to attain a well paying job they must seek a higher education. The higher education, usually a college or university, is practically required in order to succeed. To be able to attend these schools and receive a degree in a specific field it means money, and often a lot of it. For students, the need for a degree is strong, but the cost of going to college may stand in the way of a successful future. Each year the expense of college rises, resulting in the need for students to take out loans. Many students expect to immediately get a job after graduation, however, in more recent years the chances for college graduates to get a well paying job
As a college student, I have experience the growing tuition rates of the last 10 years. My mother graduated 6 years and my tuition is already much higher than hers.
College has become a significant chapter in the lives of many Americans today. In most cases, to reach the well-paying and dreamed-of careers, students must have a bachelor's degree or higher in a certain field of expertise — typically from a university. While this is true, many students have realized that university-level education, even in-state, is not cheap. With tuition rates on the rise, college is beginning to be seen as more of a burden than an opportunity. Although scholarships and financial aid decrease the net cost of attending college, the majority middle class students are not equipped with enough aid to graduate debt free, or even close to it.
The U.S. is home to some of the greatest colleges and universities in the world. But with an overwhelming 1.3 million students graduating with an average student loan debt of $29,000 each and with youth unemployment elevated, the question of whether or not college tuition is worth the money arises (The Institute for College Access & Success, 2013). Higher education faces intimidating challenges: continually rising costs, access and completion problems, constant changing of technology, and responsibility pressures from state and federal officials. But no challenge is more intimidating than the fundamental question that many Americans face to ask themselves, "Is college worth the cost?" As a result of the economic turn down, many students who graduate are not finding well-paying jobs, either within their field of study or not.
Each year, college tuition increases more and more, which makes getting a higher education almost impossible for some people. According to Pay it forward written by Catherine Morris tuitions and fees at public four-year institutions has been increasing an average of 3.4 percent each year between 2005 and 2015.
“Being yourself never goes out of style.” The average person would think that some world changing person said this but nope. Elle Woods said this. Elle Woods as in “Woods comma Elle”, the main character in the movie Legally Blonde. Legally Blonde is my all-time favorite movie. Actually, every day I strive to Elle Woods. She is basically my role model in life. This may seem silly, but really behind all the pink, Elle Woods is actually a character that may people should take notes from. The Elle Woods, in the movie “Legally Blonde”, is so appealing to me because it she shows that women do not have to follow stereotypes and can do and be whatever they want; every woman should have the blonde ambition and independence that Elle Woods has.
Tuition rates have been on the rise since the start of colleges. In 1988, the average college tuition was about $2,800 for a year of schooling. In 2008, that number had risen 130% to nearly $6,800 for one year; according to Annalyn Censky of CNN Money, if the average income had raised the same amount, median family earning would be roughly $77,000 a year, instead of the current $33,000. Americans are making $400 less on average than they did in 1988 says Censky. Over the past twenty years, college has risen 5% of the median family income from 12% to 17%; private colleges went from 27% to 47% says Economist.com. (1 SV; SV.) Tuition isn’t the only thing rising at colleges: room, meals, books, and other fees are rising as well. (4 SV: A,B,C,D.) This also takes its toll on families as well as the students themselves. Many students
Today college tuition prices are rising. Paying for college can often be a stressful responsibility. A college education is very important for many students, but when stressing on how to pay for college gets in the way, it becomes more of a burden. Kim Clark effectively states the rising prices of college tuition in her article, “The Surprising Causes of Those College Tuition Hikes.” Clark states that the cost of attending a public university, even after subtracting out aid and inflation, rose more than fifteen percent in the last
It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. College tuition is on the rise, and there’s no sign of it stopping anytime soon. A good question would be, “Why is it so expensive?”. The reason behind the price of college on the rise is because the government is cutting budget from schools. They’re spending the money that could be used on sending kids to college on things like the army.
One of the culprits hindering higher education for Americans is the tuition rates. A report by the Delta Cost Project indicates that if tuition had grown in pace with inflation, the average tuition at in-state public colleges would only have been $2,052 in 2010. The actual price of tuition was around $7,500, and it is increasing at around 5% per year, about twice as fast as the rate of inflation. Whereas everything else in the economy doubles in cost about every 32 years, college costs have been doubling around every 15 years. In a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, titled How the Changing Market Structure of U.S. Higher Education Explains College, the author, Caroline Hoxby, states that universities have little incentive
Student debt is one of the top causes of crippling debt. If you want to get a college education in today's world, you will need to either be very wealthy or suffer the consequences of student loans. College costs had risen five hundred percent since 1985, imagine how much more that has risen until 2016. A tuition at a private college was projected to cost $130,000 on average for over four years. As state cutbacks in the wake of the financial crisis, caused the cost the price of public higher education to raise by 15 percent in a two year
Today colleges are growing more and more necessary for attaining a solid path towards a successful career, yet the rapidly increasing cost of tuition is driving students away from their dream of attending college, due to the preposterous amount of money that is now being demanded by colleges across the nation and world as a whole. It is sad to see students being turned away from a successful future due to the money-hungry nature of the universities that dot the globe. More and more impossible it is becoming to have a “rags-to-riches” scenario that used to highlight the American Dream, as if a student doesn’t have the riches to afford a higher education and the tuition that is drug upon its coattails, then our society is doomed to be clothed in rags forever, unless major changes are brought about to restructure and end the indefatigable growth of tuition rates across the board.
College is said to be some of the best years of your life. The parties, the freedom, and the new experience help you find new friends, hopefully a career and yourself, but rising college cost are having young adults stressing instead of enjoying the college experience. Every year less and less states are giving their college’s money and more and more students are asking for financial aid or taking out student loans. The more that college tuition continues to rise the more of a financial toll it will take on students family and the more debt students trying to earn degrees will accumulate if we don’t try to find a way to get the state and government to help with college costs.
College tuition is in constant continuous rise in the United States. The rise in tuition varies from state to state a and from the two years public school to the four years private school in the United State, causing a heavy burden on students and parents. The four years private universities have double their tuition since 1980 while the tuition in 2 year community colleges increased by 50%. Still one cannot tell at what point this escalation of the tuition is going to become less than desirable.