Should Everyone Go To College Essay

Is college worth it? Does it teach us actual skills or is it more about paying to have a piece of paper certifying our degree so we could get in the workforce? In their research paper “Should Everyone Go to College”, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill try to answer these same questions through graphs and data taken throughout the years. For example, they find that on average college graduates make way more money over the years than the ones who did not pursuit an education after high school. Through their analysis they give their views on the different aspects of what kind of college degree is adequate in different circumstances, giving the example of someone working in a STEM job having acquired only a high school diploma would expect to make more over a lifetime than
At the end of the day, college graduates are competing for jobs. Jobs are few and far between. Employers are looking for skills, training and actual work experience. College degrees are indicative of so little actual learning that employers are using them as offhand credentials. Using employment and career earnings as measure of success, far too many students going to college are not benefitting from the experience. As many students do not fair and get the same opportunities from the start and on an even playing field, and the different variations in how students fair in the job market after being through different academic programs, I believe young students coming from high school should gather all the available resources for the positives and the negatives of taking the risks to going to college. Many students graduate with a large amount of student’s loans and debts with a limited job opportunities market. The amount of loans and debts keeps them at the mercy of high financial obligations that are hard to pay off and keeps them from saving money, the ability to own a car or a house, or simply from buying a ring and get