Community College Attendance Analysis

Research on benefits scarce, particularly on the subject of community college benefits attendance. But through the article written by Bailey and Belfield, the research on this particular subject because of their gathered information; it is demonstrated through their knowledge on the subject itself. "…it may be possible to infer benefits of community college attendance from estimates of the benefits derived either from persons with additional years of schooling or from the general college-educated population (adjusting for expected graduation rates, college quality, or attenuation, if any, of the effect of education after high school)" (Bailey and Belfield). Bailey and Benfield are not the only ones who took the statistical approach; Cherise …show more content…
Kulla states that Richard O 'Brian was not sure if he wanted to attend a community college or not because all of his friends were going straight to a four-year institute. O 'Brian decided to attend a community college but transfer to a four-year institute to finish his engineering degree; he states that "I wanted to save money…play baseball for the community college team (which ended up giving me a scholarship), and sort out what I wanted to major in without getting hit with a serious financial penalty…that decided the matter for me" (Kulla). Kulla also writes about the benefits of saving money on tuition in community college. She wrote that there is a sizable chunk of changed saved at a community college before completing the bachelor 's degree at a four-year institute. Tuition cost less than half of the cost at a four-year institute and one tenth of a private four-year institute (Kulla). O 'Brian states that "I think my student loan was at least half of what I would have paid otherwise" …show more content…
One of the benefits written in the PDF file is the tuition cost of community colleges. It states that all community college tuition is about 50% lower than four-year colleges. Also states that "All 50 states financially subsidize community college to help keep tuition fees lower and affordable to as many people as possible"(The Top Ten). Another area stated in the PDF file, is how transferable the community college credits are to universities. There is an agreement between most of the four-year colleges and community college for credit transfer towards a university degree. It is called a "…articulation agreements or 2 + 2 transfer agreements" (The Top