Cost Of Going To College

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The price might be too expensive to some people but expensive to others. The average price to attend Tennessee Knoxville per semester is $29,266 including dorms, books, tuition and other fees. Students are pressured into going to college because people tell them that they need college for a good job, but some may not have time, money, or have something else planned

Teenagers right out of high school might not have even money right out of high school. Over 44 million Americans hold $1.4 trillion in student loan debt, Evidence: a study from Wisconsin founded that it takes 19.7 years to pay off a Bachelor's degree and 23 years to pay off a graduate degree. Students aren't guaranteed a job after college which means they could be scared to go to college, they might have
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A lot of students have parents who run family businesses, and plan on working there after high school. As a junior in high school you can enlist in the army national guard without disrupting their high school education. In high school if you join ROTC the army will pay for your tuition in college and you commit to joining the army. Which means they shouldn't be pressure into going to college if they already have a plan on what to do after high school.

In a way students should attend college. Studies show that students who only graduate high school only make an average of $28,000 and kids who graduate college make an average of $51,000 per year. So over a coarse of a life students who graduated college make nearly 1 million dollars more than students who just graduated high school. You are not guaranteed the money or even the degree but the outcome, if you get the degree, is a far better outcome than what you what have gotten only graduating high