Value Of College Tuition

College Tuition: Is it worth it? College has become a standard in the majority of American’s lives over the last two decades. In the past twenty years, more and more young adults are applying and desperately seeking acceptance to a school that will give them the education they need to have a stable and desirable career. However, with this rise in the desire for a higher education there has come another increase, tuition prices. There has been an astounding increase rate in tuition prices since these student’s parents went to school. Karen Herzog in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote “In 1978, a UW-Madison student paying his or her own way, without any help, had to earn $2,362. It could be done at minimum wage by working full-time through …show more content…
Despite this concept the reality for the majority of American’s is that the “American Dream” is dead. People cannot achieve a great deal of career dreams without a degree and to attain that they need money. A great deal of students want to major in something that they love so they can get a job that they enjoy being at. Nowadays though, students need to pick their major wisely because many of them are graduating without a glimpse at any job opportunities. Students accumulate the debt that goes along with college with the thought that when they finish their degree it will be worth something. These students want their degree to get them a better job and because of that job will be able to pay off the debt that their degree acquired. The degree isn’t helping many students with the job hunt though. The sad truth is beginning to come out to students; many of their majors are a waste of money. Forbes Magazine released an article with the Top Ten Worst College Majors based on unemployment after graduation and salary income. Forbes states the worst of the majors are Anthropology and Archeology, Film and Photographic Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Liberal Arts, Philosophy and Religion, Physical Fitness, Commercial Art and Graphic Design, History and English. Every college in the nation offers most if not all of these majors and therefore brings in students wanting to study them. So why are we making it impossible for kids to pay for an education that is double their salary for their first year of work? Shannon Doyne of the New York Times wrote, “53.6 percent of college graduates under the age of 25 were unemployed or, if they were lucky, merely underemployed, which means they were in jobs for which their degrees weren’t necessary”. This is proof that colleges are making it difficult for their graduating students to move on with