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Colleges and universities are still the best, most direct path to a good career that pays well.

It's possible to believe otherwise, of course, because so many seemingly credible people and sources keep implying, if not outright saying, that, career-wise, college may not be a good investment. The andall ran pieces this year asking whether college was worth it. Literally all three used the phrase "worth it" in their headlines. Here too is a video from The Economist from September of this year that begins, "Is University Worth It?"

The video, like some of its print brethren, repeats the same discredited tropes about "huge tuition fees" and goes on to say that students should be working instead of going to college, earning instead of learning. It says, "young people are ill-served by expensive degrees," and says we need a "radically different approach."

Foremost, earnings is a terrible way to measure the value of going to college. Doing so commercializes and minimizes everything about it.

Nonetheless, despite what you may have read or seen, the monetary value of a college degree is simply not in question. Overwhelming data shows that people with college degrees earn significantly more than those without. Doug Webber, who's extensively researched such things recently wrote, "Let me be clear, the financial returns to graduating from a four-year college far outweigh any costs for the average student," and that, "The typical college graduate will earn roughly $900,000 more than the typical high school graduate over their working life."

Even the Times opinion piece headlined "College May Not Be Worth It Anymore" conceded that "Young people and their families go into debt because they believe that college will help them in the job market. And on average it does."

Yes, it does. College is definitely "worth it." There's simply zero evidence that getting a college degree is anything but "worth it."

Nonetheless, the questions persist as to whether colleges help people get good jobs. If they didn't, you may expect there to be large numbers of college graduates who cannot find work, but the unemployment rate among college graduates is historically low - just 2.2% as of November 2018. For those with a high school diploma and no college, it was 3.5%, which is also great. But there's no doubt you're more likely to have a job if you have a college degree.

Then there's the issue of so-called degree inflation in which jobs and careers that did not previously require a college education now do. There are, by most accounts, millions of these "middle-skill" jobs that have evolved to require a college diploma. Examples include sales supervisors, office managers and assistants, support specialists and clerks.

A 2017 report by Harvard Business School found degree inflation common and continuing and also found that "employers began hiring college graduates in search of higher talent quality" and that "Many employers admit that they now pay a significant premium when they hire workers with college degrees." So businesses clearly view a college degree as something worth seeking out and worth paying for. Say what you will about businesses, they're not in the habit of paying more for things that aren't worth it.

There's also the fact that, if you actually ask college students whether what they're learning has workplace utility, they overwhelmingly say yes. The 2018 National Survey of Student Engagement conducted by Indiana University, for example, found that "About 9 in 10 seniors believed what they were learning in college was relevant to their career plans."

The analogy is flawed and wrong but if college students are the customers of colleges, assuming those customers want their time in college to lead to a good job, the customers say they believe they are getting what they're paying for.

Given all that and more, a "radically different approach" is probably not a good idea for a system that's producing more jobs and higher earnings. All things considered, the employment market is sending exceptionally clear signals that college works. It's less clear why places such as The Economist and the Wall St. Journal are not reading them.

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Please Stop Asking Whether College Is Worth It

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Colleges and universities are still the best, most direct path to a good career that pays well. It's possible to believe otherwise, of course, because so many seemingly credible people and sources keep implying, if not outright saying, that, career-wise, college may not be a good investment.

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In this article it forces on the percentages of college student pursuing high education can earn you good job.

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The consumers of higher education have spoken. Workforce outcomes are, far and away, the driving motivation for pursuing post-secondary education across all ages, races, and degree types.

According to a , which surveyed 86,000 students at over 3,000 post-secondary institutions, 58 percent say work outcomes - such as finding a good job with good pay and opportunities for career advancement - are their new Strada-Gallup poll primary motivation for attending. This is true across all higher education pathways and demographic subgroups.

Not surprisingly, even more Americans (72 percent) with postgraduate education experiences identify career goals as their top motivation, as do 60 percent of those on a technical or vocational pathway. The second most common motivation for Americans with postgraduate education eperiences, "general learning and knowledge," trails at just 23 percent.

Of course, most students who pursue post-secondary education want a good job when they graduate. And, it turns out, this clarity of purpose is important. This new data tells us not only that many students go to school in order to get a job, but that clearly defined career goals play an important role in determining if those students actually complete their chosen course of study.

Students who do not complete their degree arerelatively likely to report general aspirations for learning and knowledge as their top motivation (31 percent).Those who did complete their degrees tended to place these goals lower on their list: vocational/technical training (14 percent), post-graduate work/degrees (18 percent), two-year degrees (25 percent), or four-year degrees (20 percent). In an earlier Strada-Gallup report, students who did not complete their education were also the most likely to say they would study a different major if they could do it all over again.

Institutions should take care to identify these students and work to ensure their path to completion is purposeful. Helping applicants and students to articulate work-related motivations when choosing an institution or major may make a difference in boosting persistence and completion rates. Strong career advising and transparency about the workforce paths that stem from each major can help to ensure that students enter and leave college with a clear idea of where they are trying to go and how to get there.

Perhaps most importantly, the data affirms that the majority of education consumers believe enabling career readiness falls well within the mission and responsibility of our nation's colleges and universities. It is the undisputed reason why most are going and why those who enroll with that purpose tend to finish at a higher rate.

Enrollment is declining , schools are struggling financially, and surveys reveal increasing distrust of higher education among the general public. At such a time, higher education must reorient itself around student motivations and better connect on-campus experience with the job market. Where else but the perceptions of education consumers themselves should we look for solutions to strengthen our institutions?

Misplaced investments in postsecondary education are preventable, as long as we understand the factors that lead to student success. Strada Education Network, for example, is empowering consumers by creating the nation's largest data set of consumer perspectives on pathways from education to employment. Since June 2016, we've partnered with Gallup to interview more than a quarter million American students about their education experiences, decisions, and outcomes. The insights are representative of consumers from all educational attainment levels, socioeconomic backgrounds, races/ethnicities, and ages.

Consumers are telling us in their own words what they want and need most from higher education. And the solutions are becoming loud and clear, if we are willing to listen.
Carol D'Amico is Executive Vice President with Strada Education Network , a national nonprofit dedicated to improving lives by strengthening the pathways between education and employment. Prior to Strada, she served in the U.S. Department of Education as assistant secretary for adult and vocational education, and as executive vice president and chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana.
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Attending College: What It's All About and Why It Matters

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You might think that college is just high school continued, but it's not. College opens doors for you that high school doesn't.

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Sure, it's true that college graduates make, on average, significantly more money across their lifetimes compared to those who do not graduate college. But as someone who is dedicated to helping college students succeed and prepare themselves for their futures, I see this as just the tip of the iceberg. I recently finished up writing a book all about the point of the psychology major (Own Your Psychology Major! A Guide to Student Success). Working on this book got me thinking not only about the benefits of a good psychology major, but also about the benefits of a solid college education in general. There are many.

Below is a list of 14 outcomes associated with a college education that are life-altering, and that, in combination, might encourage a student who is on the fence about college to put in the time and effort to get that degree. For the reasons spelled out below, it'll most likely be worth it.

1. More money! Yes, college graduates make, on average, thousands of dollars more a year than do non-college graduates. And this difference leads to differences in hundreds of thousands of dollars in a lifetime.*

2. Become expert in a topic. In college, you pick a major area of study and take a bunch of classes (usually between 10 to 15) all on that particular topic. Whatever your major is, and no matter your GPA, successfully completing a college major automatically ensures that you have something to bring to the table.

3. Obtain a general education. Colleges usually make sure that you take a good number of classes (usually about 10) that deal with a broad array of themes, including such things as the history of western civilization, the natural sciences, and the arts. As such, these days, we can rest assured that nearly any college graduate has a decent sense of scholarly ideas on a broad array of topics.

4. Learn specific sets of skills. In your major, you will not just learn content, but will also learn skills related to knowledge acquisition in that particular field of study. If you study psychology, you will not only learn about psychological ideas, but will also learn how to conduct statistical analyses and how to design research in the behavioral sciences, for instance. In every field in college, you will learn a variety of transferable skills that can be used across your lifetime.

5. Group work. At some point in college, you'll have a group project. This may be done in the context of a class or as part of serving in a club or in some other capacity. I have news for you: In the real world, there is a ton of group work. In fact, one of the secrets to the success of humans compared with other forms of hominids that have existed across evolutionary history is the fact that Homo sapiens developed the ability to work in collaboration with large groups of others (see Wilson, 2007). Love it or hate it, group work is in your future. College will prepare you for this fact.

6. Time management. Not everyone is an expert at time management at 18 years of age. College is a great place to learn time-management skills. You might have a paper due on Tuesday and two exams that each require 10 hours of preparation on Wednesday. And let's throw in a quiz on Friday. Effectively preparing for all of these assignments and assessments is up to you. I promise you this: being better than average at time management will have enormous benefits for you throughout life.

7. Project completion. In college, you will have all kinds of projects that you will be working on. You might be writing a research paper in your sociology class while you're working on a sculpture for your studio art class. And the club you are working with might be organizing a large end-of-year event including an invited speaker. And all the while, you might have a thesis that you need to constantly be working on. You've got stuff to do! In my experience, I'd say that the ability to effectively complete projects is priceless. And the ability to balance multiple projects at a time is icing on the cake. College is a great place to develop these skills.

8. Rules and consequences. In a typical undergraduate academic career, a student will take about 40 different classes across four years. For each class, there will be a syllabus full of rules, rules that are specific to that class. And there is usually a student handbook full of all kinds of other rules. In college, students learn to quickly learn the rules and to follow them, as there are always consequences for failing to follow the rules. For these reasons, we can think of college graduates as people who have had a strong first-hand education in learning about how to play the game and follow the rules.

9. Make lifelong friends. There are all kinds of social benefits to college as well. At 47, I am still close friends with several of the guys I went to college with (Go UCONN!), and we are actually planning a reunion (with our families included) for some time in the coming weeks. College is an intense experience, and in a sense, everyone who is there is in the same boat. And making friends is usually part of the deal.

10. Diverse ideas. In a good college experience, you will be exposed to all kinds of ideas, and you will often run into situations in which ideas don't line up with one another. And you will run into situations in which one really-smart-seeming professor fully disagrees with the ideas of some other really-smart-seeming professor. Good. This should be part of the deal! Learning how to work with a variety of ideas is a major goal of any college education, and I promise that you will find ideological diversity to be a major part of the world after you graduate.

11. Diverse people. People are great-we come in all shapes and sizes! People vary in terms of gender, socioeconomic background, religious background, cultural background, and more. We differ from one another in terms of what kind of music we like, how we like to spend a Saturday afternoon, and what kind of food we eat. And this is a beautiful thing. In your classes, in the dorms, and all across campus, you will experience diversity in all its beauty. And this fact will help you see that the little bubble that you come from is but one of many such bubbles that exist around the world. And this lesson will help you work with all kinds of people across your lifetime.

12. Become a writer. Your college experience will come with a lot of writing. Students should embrace this fact. No matter how smart you are at 18 years old, I guarantee that you have work to do on your writing-that's just how it is. Writing assignments in college are designed to get students to advance as writers, developing skills associated with presenting information in an engaging and cogent manner for all kinds of audiences. And strong writers are, simply, invaluable.

13. Public speaking. Your collegiate experience will most likely include some public speaking opportunities. Embrace these opportunities! When you grow up, you'll need this skill! No matter what your job ends up being, you'll need to communicate ideas to other people. You'll need to speak to others. You'll be giving reports on your work. You might find yourself trying to convince some client to buy your product. You might find yourself trying to convince the school board to hire another art teacher. You might find yourself presenting your research at a conference. The education that you will receive in public speaking is absolutely critical for your future.

14. Giving back to the community. Throughout one's college career, there are many opportunities to give back to the community. You might be part of an honors program that includes a community-service element. You might have a class that includes an assignment related to community service. You might be in a student club or sorority that includes community service in its mission. From my perspective as a grownup in today's world, I can confidently say that we need people with this mentality and with these skills now more than ever!

As I write in my upcoming book, geared toward college students: What you might not realize is that people in my generation are depending on people in your generation to help get this world back on track. This is partly why we care so much about you understanding the value of community.
Bottom Line
Sure, college isn't for everyone. And yes, there are many, many examples of very bright and successful people who did not go the college route. I don't deny this. And I don't think that a college education guarantees success. This said, for the reasons given above, I think it is fair to say that a good college education comes with all kinds of lifelong benefits.

If you're a high school kid who is looking at various options for your future, I say give the college route your fullest consideration. And if you've completed some college but have never officially obtained your degree, I say go ahead and register for those final classes and seal the deal. The college experience develops a young adult in a holistic manner in ways that positively affect one's entire future moving forward. And yes, you'll most likely make more money to boot!

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