College Enrollment Among High-School Grads Nears Record High
The share of recent high-school graduates who enrolled in college in 2016 catapulted to nearly reach 2009’s record high, even though an improving job market has made work an appealing alternative for some young adults to the classroom.
About 69.7% of the 3.1 million high-school graduates between the ages of 16 and 24 headed to colleges or universities, the Labor Department said, based on data from January through October 2016. That percentage trailed the historical high for the numbers tracing back to 1959.
The labor market has been gradually improving since the recession, with unemployment dropping from 10% in 2010 to less than 5% last year. Still, students are opting to attend post-secondary schools in droves, and economists, including Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, have recently defended the value of higher education as a protection against globalization and technological change.
“The economy is shifting toward more occupations that require more education,” said Jed Kolko, chief economist at job site Indeed. He noted one caveat: Many jobs that don’t require formal education credentials — like restaurant cooks — are expected to become higher in demand over the years.
In 2009, the college enrollment rate among high-school graduates rose to a record high of 70.1%, as the recession convinced many young Americans to pursue higher education in lieu of confronting a dire job market. While 2013 enrollment, which dropped to the lowest level since 2006, seemed to indicate the trend may have been unwinding, enrollment has been on the rise ever since.
Students are recognizing the high returns of college education and responding to changes in the labor market, such as the proliferation of less well-paying service jobs, said Brian Jacob, a professor of education and economics at the University of Michigan.
After years of steady enrollment growth in two-year schools, most in this cohort of high-school graduates are choosing to attend four-year colleges. These universities can thank the increased popularity of online courses and higher return on investment relative to two-year schools, Mr. Jacob said.
Those with college degrees boast a significantly lower unemployment rate than those without. The unemployment rate for college graduates declined in April 2016 to 2.4%, the lowest since early 2008. Meanwhile, unemployment climbed for workers without a high-school diploma.
Students are mainly going to highschool for some of the following reason…
1. To recieve a higher education to pursue a career that requires so
2. To expose themselves to the many possible career paths and possible future oprotunities
3. To hopefully one day have their desired job
Most high school graduates enrolling in college in 2016 chose a four-year college instead of a two-year college.In 2009, the college enrollment rate among high-school graduates rose to a record high of 70.1%, as the recession convinced many young Americans to pursue higher education in lieu of confronting a dire job market. Students are recognizing the high returns of college education and responding to changes in the labor market, such as the proliferation of less well-paying service jobs, said Brian Jacob, a professor of education and economics at the University of Michigan.
1. To get a higher salary
2.To work in their major
3. To have a great future
1.Increase their knowledge and learn about their carreer
2.Learn carreer paths that might show them more oppurtunities in working.
3.Hopefully have their dream job
1-To get a better education to have more job opportunities.
2-To get the job of their dreams
3-to get paid more money
1)To expose themselves to the many possible career paths and possible future opportunities
2)Increase their knowledge and learn about their career
3)To get a higher salary
“In 2009, the college enrollment rate among high-school graduates rose to a record high of 70.1%, as the recession convinced many young Americans to pursue higher education in lieu of confronting a dire job market.”
“”Students are recognizing the high returns of college education and responding to changes in the labor market, such as the proliferation of less well-paying service jobs,” said Brian Jacob.”
“The unemployment rate for college graduates declined in April 2016 to 2.4%, the lowest since early 2008. Meanwhile, unemployment climbed for workers without a high-school diploma.”
Unemployment drop 10%
Get higher salary
get better jobs
1)To expose themselves to the many possible career paths and possible future opportunities
2)Increase their knowledge and learn about their career
3)To get a higher salary
Students are mainly going to highschool for some of the following reason…
1. To recieve a higher education to pursue a career that requires so
2. To expose themselves to the many possible career paths and possible future oprotunities
3. To hopefully one day have their desired job
1. To receive a higher education to pursue a career
2. To make themselves exposed so they can have possible career paths and future opportunities
3. To hopefully one day have their desired job that they always wanted
1. To receive education
2. To learn new things everyday
3. To make new experiences
1. to get a better job opportunity
2. get a higher salary
3. jobs require it
1. To receive a higher education to pursue a career that requires so
2. To Increase their knowledge and learn about their career
3. to get paid more money
1.Certain Jobs require College Dipolmas
2.You can get your PHD
3.To forfill they dreams such as (Doctors,Dentist) and so on
1. Make more money
2. Secure your future
3. Get a promotion
1. Want to get a better education
2. to have a better career and a better life
3. so they can become rich
1. so it can open more opportunities on being successful
2.new experiences
3.increase knowledge
Students are attending college more because of the great recession in the late 2000s, Students realize the returns people earn from college education, and want occupations that pay decent salaries.
Better carreers, more salary, and increases there knowledge.
1.Increase their knowledge and learn about their carreer
2.Learn carreer paths that might show them more oppurtunities in working.
3.Hopefully have their dream job
Many people are starting to go to college more and more to make something out of themselves. They want to be someone in life and not struggle, another reason is to have more knowledge because more knowledge equals more money, and to enjoy life in the future once they get a good job
1. To get a good career
2. To expose themselves to the many possible career paths and possible future oprotunities
3. To hopefully one day have their desired job
1.New Experiences
2.Want better education
3.Secure for the future
1. they think the economy is shifting toward more occupations that require more education
2. increase their knowledge
3. to get a higher salary
economy is shifting toward more occupations that require more education
higher salary
better knowledge
1. To get a higher education
2. To get better pay in jobs
3. Get their dream job
To receive a higher education to pursue a career that requires so
Increase their knowledge
Can possibly get more money
Reasons for the increase in people pursuing a college degree:
1. It has become required for students to poses a college degree if they wish to work in certain jobs.
2. People want to be educated.
3. To get a wider variety of options in job that they may take.
1-To get a better education to have more job opportunities.
2. People want to be educated.
3. To hopefully one day have their desired job
1. to get better educatio
2.people wanted to be educated
3. to hopefully one day have their job
People go to college because going to college feels mandatory now. No longer can you live a respectable life with only a high school diploma. Without a college degree, your peers will see you as the scum of society, forever doomed to guard your mother’s basement with your body pillows and waifu figurines. College is no longer a pursuit of passion, it is a requirement on your resume.
Outstanding answer.
Having a college degree is the last defining caste system in America ( aside from money). However, a college degree is synonymous to having money.
Only those who are well off would be able to afford the expensive SAT and ACT prep classes to obtain a score that the best colleges want. Only the well off can afford to send their children to afterschool sports team instead of having their child work to contribute for the bill.
Having a college degree from a well-known school is an indicator of wealth (most of the time). People have begun to realize thus, and are flying in flocks back to colleges to obtain new connections in colleges, and new oppurtunities that their new found degree and loan debt will give them.
Employers want students with college degrees. Just a high school education doesn’t cut it for prestigious opportunities. Therefore, high school students want higher level education for a better life.
Succinct right on answer!
People go to college now because many people feel obligated to since people that are “successful” have went to college, and when applying for a job, people have to put their highest level of education on their application making them feel obligated to go to college to match up with other people applying to the same job. People also go to college now since there is a stigma that people who go to college get a higher pay than those who do not even if they work the same job, but many times that is not true.
Also another note, as technology betters with time, the standards for hiring and education levels become higher and higher and what it takes to get a job in a new opening profession in a competitive world becomes harder and harder with less and less education. Also, many jobs that are opening up are more geared towards the generation we have now with technology and advanced knowledge which businesses require applicants of the job to have a high degree or a higher- level education in order to work the complicated jobs.
You pinpointed the issues in higher education.
Steadily, the economy is growing more favorable towards those with higher education, and more jobs are opening up that require more education. The mindset of many now acknowledge the “high returns of college education,” and the labor market rewards those who pursue college degrees. This is shown by the fact that graduates with college degrees have a far lower unemployment rate than those without one.
Demonstrates superior insight toward the value of increasing education.
These days, the average person want a more prestigious degree that earns them a better salary. Nowadays, businessmen don’t give these types of jobs to just high school graduates; they require college degrees. For these reasons, more and more high school students are getting a college degree in hopes of a better future.
Superb writing and conclusion. High school students see a four year college degree as a ticket to the upper middle class.
Based on data collected from January to October 2016 by the Labor Department, approximately 69.7% of the 3.1 million graduate students aged between 16 and 24 were on the track to college or university. The number ranked as a historical high from 1959 and even beat the previous record high from 2009. However, much of the youth is heading straight toward the job field due to its appeal; since the recession, unemployment has dropped from 10% in 2010 to less than 5% last year. Still, the rate of young adults heading towards college and university only seems to increase as competition for higher paying, higher qualified jobs/careers skyrocket. Thus, it seems as though within the next several decades, many students will attempt to receive a Master’s Degree rather than a Bachelor’s.
Insightful organized analysis on the devaluation of the BA degree.
I feel that students are going to college mainly due to parent influence. As most young adults don’t think very much about their future, they go to college because they have been conditioned to think they must. People constantly talk about colleges and degrees, until most students just don’t know the other options. Their parents push their students towards college to earn money. Their parents must have struggled financially, and caused the parents to push the students towards making money in one of the only ways they know.
Parents are worried about the fate of their children in a hyper-competitive job environment hence the urge for a college degree preferably in a STEM field.
Students are coming to realized that a that the extra 2 years in a 4- year course as opposed to a 2-year course will help them be more successful in the long run. Employers are looking for people with anhigher education level. Just a high school graduate or 2 years in college is not enough anymore.
Impressive writing and answer. That is correct employers demand a highly educated workforce.
Yes, at this point, going to college is practically mandatory to get a decent-ish job. No one cares about high school diplomas as much as college degrees because then they’ll think you’re actually a retard. If you don’t even have a college degree in Murica, your life is pretty much worth nothing to everyone and you might as well just be dead because you’re basically just garbage. Though, you can get some pretty meh jobs without needing jack. For example, just like this one person I know (I cannot remember the weirdo’s name) they couldn’t even get a high school diploma but they got decent money as a stripper so there actually are some jobs that don’t need an education. However, for the most part, having a college degree is necessary.
A college degree has become a necessity in today’s high-order working world. Even at the high school level, getting into a prestigious college has become a priority for young students. At Whitney, for example, our College & Career Center has the busiest counselors on campus and is visited by many students every day. In general, US jobs have moved away from simple manufacturing jobs with no education necessary, and into higher service and informational sectors that need college degrees. If anyone in this country wants a chance at being hired for a well-paying job, a college degree is no longer encouraged, it is required.
Brilliant answer and analysis; correct our country is now a knowledge economy that requires a college degree or higher.