The Value Of College Education

The debate over whether college education is truly worth it began when the “New College” was founded. This college, later renamed Harvard University, was attended by wealthy young boys whose goal was to inherit their families’ businesses. Continuing on with the years, the number of schools increased from 25 colleges in 1800 to 6,900 colleges and universities in 2013. Many women, African Americans, immigrants, and Roman Catholics were excluded from the early colleges and universities until institutions in the 1900s created colleges to educate the excluded. Iowa State University became the first co-ed college although the women were excluded. Before, college tuitions were made so the average family could not afford to pay for their child to go