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10
THINGS
FOR YOU
TO CONSIDER
ABOUT
TRAINING FOR
YOUR CAREER
From a young age, many people are
taught that if you want to have a high
paying job and good career, you need
to go to college. Often it is something
parents, grandparents and closest
relatives insisted on, even though it may
not have been their career paths. It is
championed as the best way to create a
better
life.

COLLEGE PRICE TAG
$30,000

Average cost of a 4-year degree
from a state college

$20,000

Average debt a college student
has after graduation

$1 TRILLION
the collective American student loan debt

HEFTY PRICE TAG

borrow it from private or
government programs that
issue student loans. But
student loans leave college
graduates an average of
$20,000 in debt; an amount
that continues to grow until
the loan is paid. Collectively,
Americans now have $1
trillion in student loan debt.

While nearly anyone can
attend college, it comes with
a hefty price tag. The average
family income in the United
States grew 147% in the years
between 1982 and 2007, but
the cost of college grew by a
staggering 440% in that same
period. The average cost of a
four-year degree from a state
school is now $30,000. Since
most American families do
not have $30,000 proposed
readily
With all the
to blame the economic
available to spend, college
the
opportunity
a
recession as the reason
majority
education is supposed to graduates
are
having
bring, only half of all college difficulty finding jobs in
graduates had a full-time job their fields, the reality is
in 2011 and
open
positions
that
more than
employers advertise but
6 million graduates cannot have not filled has doubled
pay back their student loans. from 1,900,000 jobs in June
While many would like to
2009 to 3,900,000 vacant

MONEY WELL SPENT?

50%
Number of college
graduates that had
full-time jobs in
2011.

Over 6 Million College graduates cannot pay back their student loans