What Is Better Than College

Education plays a major role in our life. Many of us spend more than twenty years at school, in order to achieve the necessary qualifications required to attain our desired profession. Certainly, those years are broken down into several stages; two notable ones being high school and college. Many students enter college presuming the experience will be the same they had while in high school. Well, let me tell you; that assumption is very incorrect. College is by far very contrasting, it cost more, there are more academic challenges, and the social environment is much different from high school.
First, in terms of cost, college is more expensive than high school because of tuition, learning materials, and living expenses. Anyone who attends college must pay fees, whereas in high school it is free. College tuition usually starts at roughly one thousand seven hundred dollars per term and can end up costing as much as two thousand dollars. In high school, students do not have to pay for their schooling. The students’ education is funded by the government. In addition to tuition, college is also …show more content…
Now that college students are out from under their parents’ rules, social freedom is endless. College students do not have to worry about curfew, or asking for permission to go out. They could go out every day of the week if they choose. However, due to such challenging academics they may not have time to go out or be social at all. Also, in high school the facility is usually smaller, and students are, for the most part, well acquainted with each other. In addition, students in high school have the same eight hour day every day, thus helping them to know one another better. In college people are consistently coming and going, therefore rarely seeing the same person twice in a day, which accounts for fewer people being familiarized with each