Prevalence of College Education: The Sixties to Now.
Over the past seventy years the United States of America has increasingly become more and more industrialized with its markets shifting from the production industry to the consumer service industry (Short). The history of this shift has direct correlation to the more accessible college education to the well Middle Class and competition from other countries in the form of inexpensive labor. In the Sixties you could get a moderately high income job at a steel factory, furniture construction, and even more sought after jobs at General Motors, Ford, and Chevy; all of which requiring experience in those industries, but not requiring a pricy college education. In modern day United States, any higher aspirations than becoming a manager at an entry level job location (ex. Home Depot, Publix, and Walmart) is mostly contingent on that employee having a college degree. This social trend of going to college to receive higher education will only continue to increase in the upcoming years as more and more experience based low-intelligence jobs are shipped overseas to developing countries because the labor and operating costs in the United States just cannot compete with countries like India, Mexico, …show more content…
This can be attributed to the social and technological advancements of the United States, increased environmental regulations, and a higher rate of competition from foreign nations to do more tedious labor intensive tasks. Unlike the 1960’s, not attending college in 2015 puts that individual in the minority of the country with 68.4 percent of all high school graduates attending a university. The United States is now a producer and manufacturer of ideas being pushed out through the brilliant brains of well-educated individuals fresh out of college who are already searching for high paying internships before the graduation cap even hits the
Over the past seventy years the United States of America has increasingly become more and more industrialized with its markets shifting from the production industry to the consumer service industry (Short). The history of this shift has direct correlation to the more accessible college education to the well Middle Class and competition from other countries in the form of inexpensive labor. In the Sixties you could get a moderately high income job at a steel factory, furniture construction, and even more sought after jobs at General Motors, Ford, and Chevy; all of which requiring experience in those industries, but not requiring a pricy college education. In modern day United States, any higher aspirations than becoming a manager at an entry level job location (ex. Home Depot, Publix, and Walmart) is mostly contingent on that employee having a college degree. This social trend of going to college to receive higher education will only continue to increase in the upcoming years as more and more experience based low-intelligence jobs are shipped overseas to developing countries because the labor and operating costs in the United States just cannot compete with countries like India, Mexico, …show more content…
This can be attributed to the social and technological advancements of the United States, increased environmental regulations, and a higher rate of competition from foreign nations to do more tedious labor intensive tasks. Unlike the 1960’s, not attending college in 2015 puts that individual in the minority of the country with 68.4 percent of all high school graduates attending a university. The United States is now a producer and manufacturer of ideas being pushed out through the brilliant brains of well-educated individuals fresh out of college who are already searching for high paying internships before the graduation cap even hits the