First of all, I think choosing to go to college is an investment in the future. The main problem is the opportunity cost. I think it's a comparison between choosing to go to college and not going to college, and then choose the one that I think benefits the most. Many of my classmates who didn't pursue further studies are now starting their own businesses. Some of them work in foreign companies, some open stores in their hometown, some get married and have children, and some are freelancers. If I don't study, I will probably be like them. Of course, I may join the army, because this has always been my dream, and I chose to go to college, so I can't go any more, because I paid the price of myopia for my study, and my application for national defense students was rejected. This is some of the costs of going to college. Just to go to college, you have to give up something. Because time, that is, resources, is limited, we can only choose one investment method.
Going to college is not a personal choice, but also a family choice. My parents have been working outside for my sister and me to study. They have been working hard, but they have no regrets and support me to go to graduate school and continue reading. Although it does not mean selling iron, it also means determination. I am very grateful to them. I think it is a little impersonal to analyze this choice from the perspective of economics alone. However, from the perspective of economics, it is not meaningless, because sometimes it is these economic phenomena that affect our choices and even the social trend.
The accounting cost of a college student going to college for four years is tuition, books and living expenses. According to the current price standard, the sum of these three expenses of an ordinary college student is 40 thousand. If college students don't go to college to find a job, according to the current labor price standard, if the annual salary of college students is 40 thousand, that is to say, the opportunity cost of a college student going to college for four years is 40 thousand, then the conceptual cost of college economics is 80 thousand. The expenses here do not include the expenses before entering the university. If you add the time cost of parents to take care of their children and the cost of choosing a school for children to receive a good education from primary school to middle school, the cost of students going to school will be a huge figure.
The cost of going to college is so high, why do parents choose to let their children go to college? Because this choice conforms to the principle of maximizing income in economic theory. Let's calculate the costs and benefits of going to college and not going to college for a lifetime. If 17 years old does not go to college or work, and works until 56 years old, the average annual income is 10000, * * * 390000. I went to college at the age of 23 and worked until I was 56, with an average income of 20,660,000. After deducting the economic cost of going to college of 80,000, there was 580,000 left. Compared with the income without going to college, the income from going to college is 6.5438+0.9 million. This has not taken into account the influence of high education on reputation and status. The reason why parents are willing to invest heavily in their children's education is understandable.
As can be seen from the above analysis, in economics, going to college is actually an investment made by both parents and students. Parents' efforts and students' youth are obvious costs, and the opportunity cost is more, while the benefits brought by going to college are benefits; Behind this choice is the principle of maximizing income. Moreover, as can be seen from the above analysis, generally speaking, going to college does bring more benefits to people than going to college. But I must understand that going to college is no guarantee of better grades or higher pay in the future, Bill.