{"id":3204,"date":"2019-07-29T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2019-07-12T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T12:29:00","slug":"survey-majority-of-americans-believe-college-is-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/survey-majority-of-americans-believe-college-is-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Majority of Americans Believe College Is Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3205\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3205\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/degree-worth-it-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/degree-worth-it-blog.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/degree-worth-it-blog-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A majority of Americans see the value in a four-year college degree, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apmresearchlab.org\/stories\/2019\/03\/11\/apm-survey-free-college-tuition-higher-education-worth-the-cost\">a new survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted by the APM Research Lab to see what Americans believe about the value of a \u00a0college degree as it relates to its cost.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed agreed that a four-year college degree is worth it, despite the high cost of college.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, there was more support for the value of a college education among those who had completed a four-year degree than among those who had not. About 70 percent of Americans with at least a bachelor\u2019s degree said a college degree is worth the cost, compared with about 50 percent of those without a degree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apmresearchlab.org\/stories\/2019\/03\/11\/apm-survey-free-college-tuition-higher-education-worth-the-cost\">The breakdown<\/a> also varied by location. Residents of the Southern US were more likely to see the value in a college degree than those in the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Of those who said college was not worth the price tag, the majority said it was due to the large debt accrued while obtaining a degree.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apmresearchlab.org\/stories\/2019\/03\/11\/apm-survey-free-college-tuition-higher-education-worth-the-cost\">the full survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s senior communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at <a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\">adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Americans see the value in a four-year college degree, according to a new survey. The survey was conducted by the APM Research Lab to see what Americans believe about the value of a \u00a0college degree as it relates to its cost. Fifty-eight percent of those surveyed agreed that a four-year college degree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/survey-majority-of-americans-believe-college-is-worth-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Survey: Majority of Americans Believe College Is Worth It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-completion","category-value-of-college"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-PG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}