Statistically the amount of Americans who go on after high school to achieve a higher education is dropping immensely. According to the PPIC report, “Closing the Gap: Meeting California’s Need for College Graduates,” estimates the state will have one million fewer college graduates than it needs to fill all the skilled jobs in America. We’ll need 60,000 more baccalaureate degrees per year by 2025. I find this to be primarily because of the increased cost it takes to attend college. I would like to believe that most Americans would like to go to college and receive a degree, but because of the extremely high and unreachable cost for some people they are forced to skip college and go right into the labor force somehow.
As you can see in the graph above college tuition in the United States is much higher than all the other nations throughout the world and is more than double the OECD average. This is a major problem for the US and will cause an even bigger problem in the future. Like the PPIC report said, there is not going to be enough qualified people in the United States to fill all the skilled jobs that are going to be opening up in the years to come. I believe that America needs to somehow lower the cost of a higher education without losing any of its credibility. The cost of college cannot be this high, it is unreasonable to ask the average citizen to pay this for 4 years and then be bale to come out of college with all the debt and make a positive living.
This blog is a great example of what our generation is going struggle with. Colleges and Universities are bumping up there prices and it is getting out of hand for students to manage. It is making kids shy away from wanting to continue with their education and that is wrong. the prices should not be this much while in other countries it is free or close to it to attend. Going to college is becoming a bigger risk because if you are not as successful as you anticipated yourself being the amount of debt you will be in would be enormous. Higher education needs to stop increasing their prices and start lowering them instead.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both Shane and Jake. Even if we do make it out of college and end up getting a job, how are we supposed to pay for other necessities when we are in so much debt. Why are the prices for college so high and why do they continue to grow? Like shane said, will lowering the cost of higher education make the University or College lose credibility. I believe that we are taking steps in the right direction in regards of the future of college tuition. President Obama seems to be investing his time and resources to help the problem.
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