The Pros And Cons Of College Tuition

College tuition is a heavy stressor for many students coming out of high school and tuition continues to rise each year as does competition. Furthermore, students who are more privileged and have parents who earn a higher income have a higher advantage to go to the college of their choice rather than student’s with lower income. In addition, more debt will be put on the student with lower income; as a result, the proposal of correlating income to tuition cost is necessary and will benefit the lower-income students who are put at a disadvantage. All in all, equal opportunity will be given to students, less stress and debt after college graduation will be present, and students will be able to attend the college of their preference regardless of income.

During one of his campaign programs, Presidential-candidate Bernie Sanders stood before a thousand applauding and cheering people. This man just announced, as hopeful future President of the United States, that he planned to make college free for every US citizen. Many young adults favor Bernie Sanders, and other political leaders, idea of free tuition because they believe that it will open more doors for them and allow them to not worry about the burden of student loans. However, there are many reasons that regulating free college education could hurt our society and economy that people don’t often realize. College education should not be free because it would raise taxes, it would devalue the worth of a college degree, and it would pave the way for more welfare dependency.

Back in the 1950s students that graduated high school were able to get a great job with decent benefits, this was the American dream. Now the road to the middle class generally requires higher education and this puts a heavy strain on most due to the cost of attending alone. Most believe that this stopped hundreds of thousands of bright young people who wanted to attend college from going. This is why Bernie sanders is an advocate of free college. “In my view, education is essential for personal and national well-being. We live in a highly competitive, global economy, and if our economy is to be strong, we need the best-educated workforce in the world. We won’t achieve that if, every year, hundreds of thousands of people cannot afford to go

To start off in any argument about Bernie Sanders people will say “His plans are to make college free that has to be good”, and this sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. When Bernie Sanders says “Free college” what he means is that people who make more money will have to pay greater taxes so that people

As a high school senior, I have recently been exposed to the ultimate evil that is the cost of college. The price for attending a public university for 4 years totals well over $100,000, and I, as well as other members of the Class of 2017, are petrified at the thought of student loans and debt. But this problem hasn’t been around for too long, nor does it look like it’ll be getting better anytime soon.

Why is making public college free such a big conversation recently? Nowadays, workers need at least a bachelor’s degree to get a well-paying job, because of the competitive workforce. Many low-income students see college as unattainable due to high tuition rates, but if public colleges were free taxes would rise tremendously. Additionally, the option of a free public college would decrease the enrollment of private schools which would force them to increase their tuition and eventually close. Lastly, the reasons why student debt is high are increased enrollment which makes finical aid competitive and increased tuition, dwindling state support.

The key to living a comfortable life in today’s world is having a college education. Life has gotten much harder and the job market has become more competitive without a four year degree. Having to work two or three jobs and both parents of the home working to put food on the table. People are barely making it with a bachelor’s degree now and are finding themselves needing a master’s degree to get a better job. College tuition has been increasing at a steady rate. Many students are finding themselves not having equal opportunity to attend college due the high tuition cost. A large number of students that do attend find themselves with a huge amount of student loans to pay. Colleges have raised their tuition greatly, created unequal opportunity and create loans that take years to pay back.

“Things are going to be different for you now,” my mother said with tears streaming down her face. I was the oldest of five and would be the first in my family to attend college. “Things will be better for you.”

Another way free college tuition would benefit our country is by allowing the education gap at the bottom to no longer set a standard on education students receive. Thomas L. Friedman author of “The World Is Flat”, states, “So it made it possible for relatively wealthy people to organize into self-taxing districts. And that meant that wealthy people, by associating with each other, could tax themselves at relatively low rates and still produce very high per capita per student school budgets, because of their bigger homes and higher property tax assessments.” (360). Funding plays a major role in how many schools are educated and at what level by levels of poverty, but by allowing free college tuition students can look at more schools that offer some of the best of education.

A common debate within an organization is revenue. Whether it be a price hike on an item or a service, it is something that is debated often. Many Universities each year commonly want to determine if it is plausible to raise tuition for quality educational services. When conversing about a surge in tuition, the concerns that come about are, affordability, institutional expenses, educational services, and other university goals. Nonetheless, what is evident is will an increase in tuition have a negative or positive impact on future enrollment? This paper examines the question stated and analyses the circumstances created by changing tuition prices and will it root the revenue to rise, fall, or remain the same. As a final point, a proposition

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said "In a global economy, when our young people are competing with workers from around the world, we have got to have the best educated workforce possible. And, that means that we have got to make college affordable." With hundred and thousands of young people not being able to afford going to college, our nation will not be able to have the best-educated workforce in the world. In Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway,Sweden, Mexico, and parts of Germany, public colleges and universities are tuition-free. According to the website washingtonpost.com, that is why more than 4,600 students each year leave the United States and enroll in German universities. If we America want to have the best workforce in the world, we will have to make college free. If not we will fall behind other countries and we will not be able to catch back

Cost of education makes students more determined and thus, more successful and adds responsibility to complete the degree. Good students will always strive to do well and remain motivated to continue toward the goal no matter the cost, they know that money and time are an investment in the bright future; however, irresponsible students who are not serious about their degree and future career are held away by the price tag. Where is the guarantee that making the education free with all its consequences will, as Sanders mentioned, give us the “best educated workforce”? How will it make colleges more innovative and education systems of a higher quality? Making something cost less is not equal to making it better or more successful; the result is actually reversed, as it leads to fewer options and possibly lower rates of student success – you can’t force students to do better or to remain enrolled, especially from somewhere in Washington. Just getting kids in college does not make them prepared for college-level work in any way, and with current high drop-out rates and declining enrollment we witness today, it will only get worse when students will know they can always come back or start over, because they are not, in fact, losing anything. According to American Association of Community Colleges, who based their findings on the data from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Student Clearinghouse, as of March of 2015, adult learners who attended exclusively part-time had a 26.6% completion rate, compared to 49.1% who attended exclusively full time. The 20 or younger students who attended exclusively part time had the lowest completion rate of 12.1%, but those who attended exclusively full time had the highest completion rate of 61.5%. As there are many details to how this data was collected and analyzed, such as difference in completion by gender,

There are several positives that would come from decreasing college tuition. Many countries around the world have figured out how to decrease tuition and have seen an increase in student enrollment and a positive impact on the nation. One of the countries that has seen a positive impact from decreasing tuition is Japan. In an article written by Abigail Hess, she says that “Japan's investment has resulted in a highly educated population: [One of Japan’s research organizations] reports that the country has the second highest level of adult education in the world, with nearly 50 percent of citizens completing a tertiary level education” (Hess). By the Japanese government investing in their educational system, the country has risen to one of the top educated countries in the world. Since school is more affordable, the Japanese citizens are receiving more education than countries that don’t do the same thing. If the United States would implement the Japanese government’s strategy this would have the same effect on our country. According to Helen Scarr, In the United states “Statistics show that in 2015/16 the average tuition fees at an in-state public college were $9,410 and a whopping $32,405 at private colleges. These high fees are one of the reasons why US students are choosing to jump across the pond to Europe, a continent famous for its culture and history and increasingly known for its free degrees” (Scarr). This is bad for our country because we are inhibiting the amount of education Americans can receive which can cause some citizens to immigrate

When a person decides to attend college, the task of paying off student loans falls solely on the person attending college. With free education, nearly everyone would be taxed in order to help pay for an education, even those with no intention of attending a university. That would not be fair to those who decided not to attend a university. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has a plan to make tuition free for all Americans. According to Sanders’ website, tuition cost a total of seventy billion dollars per year. Sixty-seven percent of that would be covered by federal state while the thirty-three percent would be covered by the state government. This indicates that state and federal taxes will be raised significantly to cover the cost of the students’ education. Not only will taxes be raised significantly, other government policies will have a decreased budget. Medicare and military are the two highest budgets paid for by taxes. If education is made free, then those two and more like it will

College debt is probably one of the biggest stressors of college students once they graduate. The college student ends up paying the loan debt, instead of making contributions back to the economy. The government has failed to keep up with the growing cost of college tuition. Students at the beginning of school are unsure of what their salary will be upon graduation day College debt is rising in the world, while other things do not change.