Analyzing Effects of College Education on Students' Future

This essay delves into the multifaceted effects of college education on students' lives, focusing on the causes that lead individuals to pursue higher education and the diverse impacts it has on their future. The essay highlights how college education enhances skills, fosters critical thinking, and increases earning potential, contributing to both individual and societal advancement. It emphasizes the importance of college in shaping well-rounded individuals with integrity and civic responsibility. Through a comprehensive analysis, the essay illustrates the profound influence of higher education on students' careers, financial stability, and overall personal and professional growth. The essay also references relevant literature to support the arguments made.

Running head: CRITICAL THINKING
CRITICAL THINKING
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author Note

Education has become an integral part of our daily life. Education not only increases our
skills and credibility in the world market, but also helps us to become a rational and an integrated
individual in the society (Mishkind, 2014). There are profound impacts on the students who go to
college. Higher education is not only precious and valuable for the individual who receives it,
but also the economy and the society as well. People tend to go to college for many reasons.
However, one of the customary reasons for them going to college is for earning more money.
Nevertheless, apart from earning more money, the other benefits of going to college might be:
gaining an out-knowledge of basic education, learning and becoming capable of new skills,
getting an opportunity for group work, meeting diverse people from diverse background and
getting opportunities to give back to the community.
Through college education, there is a corresponding relation between higher levels of
education and higher earnings for the entire racial or ethnic group, irrespective of gender (both
for men and women). As I have also studied in college, I have experienced of getting highly paid
in my profession that I pursued after completing my college. The organizations and enterprises
value the extra skills and expertise we learn from our college for the benefit of their organization.
The organizations nowadays desire for better candidates who would provide them with premium
work, therefore, they choose to hire college graduated students more in greater designations
(Mourshed, Farrell & Barton, 2013).
The graduated students from college are less likely to be smoking at unprecedented rate.
The college graduates are more health conscious and have lower incarceration rate than the
people who have not graduated college before (Kirkwood & Price, 2013). Therefore, it can be
termed that a complete individual with integrity and respect is built in the colleges, up to certain
extent. As I am a college pass out, I have never developed smoking habits in the campus as well

as outside the campus. Study says that most of the colleges and universities of America and
Canada had been subject to non-smoking discretion.
Through college education, with higher level of education in the society, there has been
outstanding level of volunteering and civic participation such as blood donation camp and
voting. Higher education received by an individual in a society is more likely to vote, participate
in campaigns, follow political views and discuss about politics with the general public. It is
because higher education would lead to higher political exposure and engagement to the students
in platforms such as public forums or social networks (Bowen, 2018). As I have been a college
pass out, I can well recollect that the students’ forum of our college had participants who were
well read and politically informed. The pass outs have relatively shown greater participation in
public spheres and events rather than the group of people who did not get higher education.
Therefore, it has to be understood that college education has a profound effect on the
future of a student. It not only helps the student grow a well informed individual in terms of
skills, competencies and politics, but also helps him/her to grow into a responsible and integrated
individual physically and psychologically.

References:
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British Journal of Educational Technology, 44(4), 536-543.
Mishkind, A. (2014). Overview: State Definitions of College and Career Readiness. College and
Career Readiness and Success Center.
Mourshed, M., Farrell, D., & Barton, D. (2013). Education to employment: Designing a system
that works. McKinsey Center for Government.