The importance of higher education cannot be stressed enough to young people. With a college degree, you are able to choose from a wide variety of high paying jobs that will allow for a comfortable living. We generally think of college education in personal terms. Students invest considerable time, energy and money into building their futures through education. College education brings wider opportunities and a higher standard of living. This is why families save in advance, sacrifice current consumption opportunities, and sometimes go into debt in order to enable their children to continue their education after high school. Higher education is generally a post secondary education at colleges, university, junior or community colleges, professional schools, technical institutes and teaching-training schools.
Higher Education Benefits -
By attending higher education institutions, students obtain a wide range of
personal, financial and other lifelong benefits. Likewise, society and
taxpayers as a whole derive a multitude of direct and indirect benefits when
citizens have access to post secondary education Benefits to individuals
include:
1. Higher levels of education increase earnings
potential and decrease unemployment. An individual with higher education will
earn more, than a high school graduate will ever make in a lifetime and is less
likely to be unemployed.
2. There is a correlation
between higher levels of education and higher earnings for all racial/ethnic groups
and for both men and women.
3. People who have attended college tend to work
more in white-collar jobs, in office buildings or other facilities with air
conditioning and heating, and with conveniences that improve the quality of
their lives
4. Improved decision-making.
Individuals with higher levels of education have increased capacity to make
informed, efficient decisions as consumers.
5. Parents who have attended college give an
improved quality of life for their children.
Social
benefits include:
1.
Higher levels of education also correspond to
lower levels of job instability and poverty. An individual who has higher
education not only contributes more tax revenues but they are also less likely
to depend on social safety-net programs, generating decreased demand on public
budgets.
2.
College
graduates are more likely to vote in elections, volunteer in their communities
and make charitable contributions.
3.
Higher
education contributes to workforce flexibility by educating individuals in
general skills like critical thinking, writing, and interpersonal
communication, each essential for economic competitiveness.
4.
Collegeeducation provides individuals the ability to adapt easier when using new
technology. Much of the benefit of higher education accrues to individual
students and their families. Average earnings increase measurably with higher
levels education for all members of demographic groups.
An individual with a college degree earns 73 percent more
than the typical high school graduate does. College graduate are also less
likely to be unemployed and less likely to live in poverty.
Article Courtesy of College of Information Management and
Technology . ( CIMT - LPU Study Center ) is one of the premier Institutions of Technical and
Management Education in Delhi and Delhi NCR.
