| Aside from the one obvious benefit of earning | | | | money comes the ability to afford better |
| a college degree - making more money - there | | | | preventative health care. Those with higher |
| are a myriad of other advantages to | | | | education tend to have more hobbies as well. |
| furthering your education past the high | | | | But one important thing to note: those that |
| school level. By devoting the time and | | | | have a college degree are often able to |
| commitment to the improvement of personal | | | | provide an improved quality of life for their |
| knowledge and intellectual fortification, you | | | | offspring. As a result, college-educated |
| provide yourself with the tools to be a | | | | parents often breed college-educated |
| better employee, a better citizen, and a | | | | children. |
| better all-around individual. There are | | | | |
| several economic and social factors (both | | | | The benefits of a college education extend |
| individual and civic in nature) that you | | | | far into the workforce as well. With the |
| might not even consider to be the potential | | | | ownership of a college degree usually comes |
| outcomes of you, an individual, earning a | | | | the increased ability and the willingness to |
| college degree. The benefit of earning a | | | | use and continue to learn technology. Also, |
| college degree does not just have an | | | | from doing the work that is involved in |
| individual impact, but it has a societal | | | | earning a diploma often comes the experience |
| impact as well. | | | | with peers that will help you succeed in a |
| | | | competitive business world. College is |
| Among the many personal benefits of earning a | | | | probably the best place for networking that |
| college degree is, of course, higher personal | | | | exists. During your four or five years as an |
| earnings. A person with at least a bachelor's | | | | undergraduate, you have the chance to meet |
| degree tends to earn at least two times more | | | | literally thousands of people who can be |
| money annually than a person with a high | | | | potential business contacts down the road. |
| school diploma alone. This personal plus has | | | | Not only can it be an opportunity to make |
| the potential to influence the public sector | | | | allies in the workplace for the future, but |
| in turn. The greater number of people with | | | | it is also simply good practice in the art of |
| college educations leads to lower | | | | exchanging ideas with your peers. |
| unemployment rates, which in turn leads to | | | | |
| decreased reliance on publicly-funded | | | | In the past, employers usually required only |
| programs such as welfare. This concept of | | | | a high school diploma for employment. Today, |
| personal improvement for the greater good can | | | | however, a bachelor's degree is often the |
| be further demonstrated. | | | | minimum level of education that a potential |
| | | | employer will even consider. While it is |
| By achieving a strong educational foundation, | | | | possible to still succeed in the business |
| a person tends to continue to educate | | | | world without the benefit of a college |
| themselves throughout their lifetime. Whether | | | | degree, it is highly unlikely, given today's |
| this is by earning further college degrees or | | | | vastly competitive and technology-driven |
| by simply being more civically minded and | | | | workforce. And while layoffs do affect those |
| socially conscious, the benefit of a college | | | | in the workforce with college degrees, it is |
| degree has been shown to increase a person's | | | | usually easier for them to find a new job for |
| sense of civic responsibilities and | | | | those who are not. |
| awareness. Those with higher educations show | | | | |
| increased participation in voting, increased | | | | A college degree is considered enduring. Its |
| altruism, and a greater appreciation of | | | | impact does not change or lessen, despite its |
| social diversity. This in turn can lead to a | | | | age. It is considered a scale by which you |
| decrease in crime and poverty rates. | | | | have measured and proven your competency in |
| | | | both general and specific areas of academia. |
| There are many more personal benefits of | | | | By earning a college degree, you not only |
| having a college degree other than making | | | | take steps toward enriching yourself over the |
| more money. Often, those who have attained a | | | | course of your entire lifetime, but you also |
| higher education enjoy better long-term | | | | serve to enrich the society you live in. The |
| health and thus an increased life expectancy, | | | | benefit of a college degree far outweighs the |
| which could be related to higher personal | | | | financial gains you stand to make. |
| income. With the benefit of earning more | | | | |