Tuition

loans. Tuition varies at every university and schools that ranks are high tend to have a higher cost of tuition. Tuition is always a decisive factor for students who cannot afford to attend such institution. Students are willing to go to a school with lower tuition, but is paying more worth it or important? Schools with high or low tuition have similarities and differences, but they offer a similar type of education. Universities vary in cost of tuition,…

High Tuition and High Expectations: The Consumerist Outlook Tuition increases in recent years have caused society to develop a consumerist outlook on education and has introduced cost-benefit factors which leads students to question whether they are getting the total value of education for what they invest. The real question focuses on expectations: how their expectations shift when they pay more, what exactly those expectations may be, and how these expectations effect student success and…

women to pay off their student debt. Due to the major growth in college tuition and costs, it has become one of the major topics politics. One of the products of the public’s outcry for college affordability is the College for All Act. Introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, the bill aims to eliminate the tuition and required costs associated with attending public colleges.…

In her 2015 New York Times article, “Free Tuition is Not the Answer,” author Catharine Hill criticizes the free tuition plan proposed by some politicians saying that the plan wouldn’t work for low- and moderate-income families. Hill, the president and professor of economics at Vassar College, provides the Department of Education’s online College Scorecard as her source, Hill declares, “...too many institutions, both in the private and public sectors are not affordable for low- and…

average, tuition increases at around eight percent per year, which means the cost of college doubles every nine years” (8 Reasons College Tuition is the Next Bubble to Burst). Colleges have been relying on steady tuition hikes to fuel their funding knowing if they raise tuition, students will simply borrow more money. Nowadays, students graduating with over twenty five thousand dollars in student loan debt are about triple the amount of students from the past decade alone. Sadly, tuition is also…

There are three things that need to be known before deciding to go to college. Prospective students need to understand the benefits of college, cost of tuition, and life without a degree. BENEFITS OF COLLEGE The number one benefit of college is a higher potential in earnings. The amount of money you can make depends on what degree you earn. There are four degrees: associates, bachelors, masters, and PhD. Those with a PhD make about $100,000 more on their annual earnings than a diploma or GED.…

That is how our society’s socioeconomic ladder works; once you graduate high school, you then go to college if you are able to afford it so you can land a job making middle class income in order to live out “The American Dream”. But with college tuition being at an all time high and student loan debt crippling most college grads, it is becoming quite a nightmare trying to pursue a higher education. It is time we put a stop to this issue and figure out ways to diminish America’s student loan…

past fifty years, the costs of college tuition have been increasing at an expeditious pace. The first universities to ever be established were around 1100-1200 in medieval Europe, which was free of charge. According to BestCollege, Thomas Jefferson proposed an education system supported through taxes. He believed that for to have an upstanding government and citizens, the population had to be educated. In the early 1800s, many colleges did not charge tuition or had very low rates, however; only…

cards (Jensen). Colleges increase their tuition every year because they know students can get a loan to pay for the education, which can affect students loans to go up(“The Real Reasons Why College Tuition is so High and What You Can Do About it”). People nowadays are doing the 2 step college option were they go to a affordable 2 year college and then transfer to a 4 year college which cuts down their student loans drastically(“The Real Reasons Why College Tuition is so High and What You Can Do…

increasingly out of reach for many young adults as tuitions and fees continue to climb, drastically limiting their chances of success. According to U.S. Department of Education, “for the 2014–15 academic year, average annual current dollar prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board were estimated to be $16,188 at public institutions, $41,970 at private nonprofit institutions, and $23,372 at private for-profit institutions.” (“Tuition costs of colleges and universities”, par.1)…