{"id":90726,"date":"2024-03-17T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=90726"},"modified":"2024-03-17T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T20:15:14","slug":"a-better-investment-than-a-college-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/a-better-investment-than-a-college-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Investment Than A College Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the US college board the average out of state cost for a student attending a four-year college is $149,720 when including tuition, books, room and board. The prices are lower for community colleges and higher for private and for-profit colleges but the out of state four-year college is a pretty typical experience for most people taking this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$150,000 is a lot of money for a young adult to be playing around with especially when students are taking on debt to fund the expense, but most don\u2019t look at a college degree as a frivolous purchase, it\u2019s an investment that will produce strong returns over a working career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data still backs this up, the cost of a college degree has increased significantly but just by the numbers it is still a good investment with the typical college graduate earning $650,000 more than the typical high school graduate over the course of their according to Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But just because something is a good investment doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t other better investments available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Better Investment Than A College Degree - How Money Works\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C_IurzJsQtE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the US college board the average out of state cost for a student attending a four-year college is $149,720 when including tuition, books, room and board. The prices are lower for community colleges and higher for private and for-profit colleges but the out of state four-year college is a pretty typical experience for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,138,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-career-training-lifestyle","category-events-sports-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}