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Essay / Pros and Cons of Free College - 1177
Most students attempting to earn a bachelor's degree will not reach their goal in four years, most students will take between five and six years to earn a bachelor's degree. . Not everyone is qualified for college, which is why they shouldn't attend college for free. Andrew Eichen states that "free tuition would encourage many more students to attend college, regardless of their aspirations or interests." Free college will also lead to overcrowding in public universities: “paying students, deeply invested in their studies, could be placed in overcrowded classes or worse, excluded. Regardless of the outcome, free tuition would result in limited capacity at public universities and, consequently, lower quality public education” (Goldrick-Rab and Kelly). Free college would lead to a potentially over-educated and under-skilled workforce. If everyone got a college degree, the value of it would decrease and the demand for jobs requiring a degree would be too high and ultimately the workforce would be unbalanced so that people with with a university degree should still work in minimum wage jobs. More and more students will go to college, and eventually more students will get PhDs that they will have to pay for anyway. Not everyone is capable of going to college, so they shouldn't go if