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Why go to College?
The question should really be: Why not go to college?
- Graduates of four-year colleges earn 80 percent more income over their lifetimes than high school graduates — this adds more than $1 million over a lifetime.
- The unemployment rate for people with less than a high school diploma is 8.5 percent as compared with 5.0 percent for high school graduates.
- As students continue to higher education, the rate of unemployment drops to between 1.7 percent and 3.7 percent.
- The average return on the investment in a bachelor’s degree is 20 times the cost of that education.
- Montana is host to some of the best colleges in the nation — they have been recognized in U.S. News and World Reports and Princeton Review as being among America’s top colleges!