Tuition is high and enrollment is down, but here's why college could still be worth the investment

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A strong job market, rising wages and skyrocketing tuition are potentially why many are choosing to forgo college. But here's why you might want to go anyway.

The pandemic may no longer be closing down campuses, but college enrollment still hasn’t recovered. In fact, preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, or NSCRC, show that fall 2022 enrollment dropped even further from 2021 levels.The pandemic may no longer be closing down campuses, but college enrollment still hasn’t recovered.

Four-year for-profit colleges saw higher declines than other institutions. Among for-profit programs, fall 2022 NSCRC data show: Why is college enrollment declining? A study by the National Center for Education Statistics found that many chose not to enroll in college at the onset of the pandemic due to changes in their household’s income, concern about contracting COVID-19, and uncertainty around the class format. But as the effects of the pandemic subsided and schools resumed in-person learning, enrollment still lagged.

Kristen Ahlenius, director of education at Your Money Line, a financial wellness platform, sees a scenario where forgoing college could be beneficial. Why you should still consider college Even with soaring tuition and a student debt crisis taking over headlines, college graduates tend to be much better off than high school graduates in the long run.

And the Labor Department found that the earnings gap increases with the level of education. Holding a master’s, doctorate or other professional degree means you could earn more than double what you would make with a high school diploma.

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Fk outta here, lol waste of money

Crazy idea, but maybe actually teach children job skills in those 12 endless years of primary school. How about that? It should be no one's duty to prop up colleges.

No

Conclusion: it's not.

Now, to get Alumni to stop giving anything to these leftist Ivy League swamps.

You mean Marxist indoctrination centers

You can get the same education for free, online. Most people don’t need a degree for their field unless they’re going into a specialty like medicine or law.

Worst experience of my life to get a sheet of paper and now they want me to drive drunk people around instead of being a productive part of society. Joke.

Best way to lower tuition is to allow student loans to be dischargeable in bankruptcy and to get the government out of the student loan business.

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