Now more then ever a high school education is no longer enough: The United states is changing it is not as labor driven as it use to be, now it’s all about corporate America and technology computer’s etc as a result college education as become so much more important to unlocking the into the corporate world. But that’s not all the cost of living as change as well and jobs that require a person to only have a high school education or less are at the point were you can cover your monthly expense such as paying your rent or the mortgage if you are buying home and keep up with the utility’s bills and for people who have children that require daycare trying to cover the cost of all of these monthly bills on a limited salary can be extremely difficult not to mention some of the other unexpected things that come up from time to time.
Better earning potential with college degree: A person with a college degree as a much better chance to earn more money then someone only as a high school education or G.E.D. (According to the U.S. Census Bureau 2004) adults eighteen and older with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of 51,554 in 2004, while those with a high school diploma earned 28,645 and those without a school diploma earned even less with only 19,169 but people with an advanced degree such as a masters earned 78,093. The numbers clearly show that people with a college degree made more money; these numbers also show that the higher up in education someone’s get the money you can earn. What this means is that the more money you make it lets people do things like take better care of you’re family and these numbers show that having a college degree pays.
Better career opportunity’s with college degree: People who have a college degree have the inside track to better jobs, plus their are jobs that if you don’t have a college degree you can’t even thinking about applying for such as staff Secretary/QATAR for Weill medical college of Cornell University in order to be consider you got to have at least an associate degree or how about International student advisor for the University of Colorado at Denver and health sciences minimum qualifications bachelor degree or higher last but not least Academic advisor at Virginia Tech qualifications for this job masters degree in counseling(Inside higher Ed 2007). According to (Delmarvanow.com2007 ) which is a web site that you can do a number of things such as post a resumes get Advice Resources and of course find a job so I decided to look up accounting jobs sense I math and counting and handling money of the 33 accounting jobs the site gave me from my search results only two of those jobs a person with a high school education could even apply for the remaining 31 jobs accounting jobs wanted someone to have at least an associate degree, bachelor degree or higher. Their were also some other jobs I looked up on (delmarvanow.com 2007) such as telephone sales representative for M&T bank again potential candidate needed an associates degree for chance to get the job after going on both of hose web sites to look at job requirements I’ve come to the conclusion that most jobs on their you needed a college degree or some form of post secondary training again a school education is not enough.
College degree key to helping fight poverty: For less fortunate people college degree is the pipeline out of poverty according to (collegeboard.com2007) higher education improves quality of life for recipients, society. One of the first ways it’s good for society is that a college degree will give people in that situation a chance to get a good job which will help lower unpolyment rates and it also means that it gives people the ability to get off state and government programs such as section eight which helps people with little to no income at all pay their rent, plus they will be able to pay taxies which again will benefit economy their also more likely to vote. According to (Baum&Ma2007Para9) college graduates have lower smoking rates, plus better positive perceptions of personal health and healthier lifestyles than individuals who did not graduate from college.
How to find a college that is right for you: Their a lot of things to consider when you trying to find a college if you are someone who as been out of high school for few years and have kids and you have a full time job it can be hard trying time find the time to go on campus somewhere after a hard days work. A distance learning environment might be a perfect fit because you can work at home at your own pace and still purse a college degree. If you are someone who as just graduated from high school the traditional college experience would probably be a good fit for you. Some other things think about when you are looking for a college is the different types of degrees they offer, as well as location and size of school.
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