Why College Fees Should Be Paid

Two quick questions: How many of you in this class like free stuff? How many of you in this class wish college was free? That’s what thought almost all of you think that way, I thought that way myself until I realized that doesn’t make sense. Growing up my mother always told me the story of her graduation and I can’t quite remember the year she graduated, but she graduated from Troy State University in Montgomery, Alabama. She always told me about the feeling of receiving that diploma as for her being the first one of her family to have a college diploma. With tears in her eyes she told me “Brock I can’t wait for the day you have that feeling”. So when I think about college tuition becoming free two question pose in my head: 1. Could this be even possible for our government to pay off every 4 year institution? and 2. Why would any high school graduate find going to college appealing if it was free.

good career if college was free.The recent studies of tuition increases have proven that it is obvious college should be free.

I personally don't think that college should be free. Students who pay for their college are more motivated, hard working and independent. Many students would have poor motivation to finish school, because they can always come back. As a matter of fact students with ambitions to get university degree are learning much harder in high school than other, who thinks they don’t need an extra paper. There are many students that are so smart, and they will find the way to get money for school. With extra work and help from family students will be able to afford college tuitions. Students need to depend on themselves; otherwise every taxpayer will have to cover their education expenses. There are several reasons why

Lower classes families will be able to send their children to college which will give them an opportunity they would never have had.

Costs are what usually stop students from applying or even considering going to a UC or CSU, especially for middle class students. Since technically they are able to pay for it the government doesn’t help them out as much as they wish they could. Tuition for universities is very high, but it is a “you get what you paid for” type

Universities used to be a privilege for most academic students to attend and it was very affordable, but currently the price per year to attend college has drastically increased. For instance, in the “1970’s the average cost was 10,000 dollars a year and today the average cost is 30,000 dollars a year” (CQ Researcher). This is a triple increase in the price per year to attend college. Allowing this increase on college tuition has impacted the student’s attendance rate. This is a significant financial burden for college students and their family. Some believe that college shouldn’t be free because we are risking the value of college education, while others think it should be free because we are trying to avoid having our upcoming generation

In the United States of America, the public school grades of kindergarten through senior year of high school are free to all students no matter how many times they repeat that education. This is 12 years of basically mandatory education in background areas that will probably be of no use to you on your choice of career path, but merely sets up a base for further learning. So why does this not also apply to college or at the very least community college, where you study your intended path and what you are interested in? There are many theories as to why college should or should not be free for all Americans seeking to better themselves and their educational path. College should be free for those who wish to seek a higher education beyond high

There have been arguments when discussing the price of attending college. The main argument that we have is whether college tuition is too expensive or not. Over the last few decades the college tuition rates have increased drastically, but is a rate increase necessarily a good or bad thing. I personally believe that the cost to attend college is too expensive especially for low and middle-income families. There are many reasons why tuition could be considered too expensive they include, rise of tuition, little financial aid, and lack of college savings to name a few. The first reason why college tuition is considered too expensive is the continuing rise of tuition itself. Between the years 1973 to 2008 tuition for a four-year increased

For several years, legislators have debated the cost of college tuition. Some opinions state that college should be free because education is important to individuals and the economy and the debt after college can be crippling. Differing opinions state that college tuition should not be free due to the devaluation and the valuableness of education. College tuition should not free because of the issues that would later follow the decision and because a college degree does not promise a more successful life than one would have without one.

Students receive free public education from pre-k to 12th grade, so why should students have to pay for college? College can be a huge expense, and many loans have to be taken out to pay for their education. Is this right? If high school is free then why isn’t college? According to student support organization College Board, published tuition fees for 2014/15, state colleges are an average of US$9,139 for state residents, and $22,958 for everyone else. This compares to an average of $31,231 at private non-profit colleges. Why is it so expensive, unlike in some places where it’s free.

In America college tuition has quadrupled in the last 35 years. College administrators like to tell the story that baby boomers paid their college tuition from the money they made during summer break. A few years later colleges decided to raise tuition price because people wanted to get a college degree. Colleges were seeing that people wanted to go to college they decided to raise the prices and make business out of it. In Germany, however college tuition is free, and by doing this Germany gets both domestically and internationally to enroll in Germany colleges. I think that for Germany for doing this is a great idea because it give people opportunity to get an higher education to make some money out of it.

Tuition fees have always been a complaint to people who are paying and attending college, most say it is too expensive, some say it should be free. Is that a good way to go? Making college something that anyone could attend? Some say that free college would allow students that are less fortunate, wealth wise, to attend college and have hope for a better future. College plays a very important role in the economy and in my opinion, I certainly believe that college tuition is there for certain reasons. The reasons for high tuition costs will not be discussed but the reason for it will be: Making tuition free would cause taxes to rise significantly due to the government owning higher education, It would feel like public high school again, having no motivation to do anything, Free higher education still wouldn’t get everyone to go to college. At first, free education sounds nice because of european countries doing it, but in turn, it would ruin our country as a whole.

Researchers found that with all these expenses, colleges are not spending roughly the same amount of money resulting in the rise of tuition cost. For example at public research Universities, spending increased close to three thousand dollars per full-time students (Matthew, 2013).

This will be my first year in college so I do not know how much I will spend but it will be the necessary amount for books and other school necessities. I intend to pay for college with financial aid and scholarships. I am relying more on scholarships because I will not be receiving a huge amount of help from financial aid. As a middle class citizen I will need to receive the most scholarships I possibly can to pay for college. I hope to have a part-time job to help pay as well. In college I will be studying as a nursing major, I am striving to become a nurse practitioner. Once I receive a master's degree I will work as a nurse practitioner in a hospital.

The biggest challenge college students have today is to pay for college or university. Every year college and university tuition goes up, by thousands of dollars. Majority of students can’t afford to pay for that, so they have to get jobs to pay off their debts or just to get buy or pay for school expenses. Because many students don’t get enough financial aid to help them cover the majority of their school cost, some students don’t bother going to school, and drop out working minimum wage jobs for the rest of their lives. The students who do choose to go to school have to take out loans until the day they graduate school. Which can become very stressful as the loans amount increase.