Measuring Up Universities Against Community Colleges

There have always been arguments regardingexciting time and an opportunity that you shouldn't miss
degrees from universities and diplomas fromout on.
community colleges. Is the university one as beneficialUniversities attract students from across the globe, so
as its supporters seem to think it is? Let's have a lookdifferent nationalities, cultures and religions etc make
and see if the university degree really is so worthfor one very big and exciting melting pot of diversity.
having.If you want to experience this diversity at a community
If you attend university, it is generally because youcollege, you will have to attend one in a city like New
want to make a career in one of those jobs thatYork, which has such a large population that diversity is
traditionally pays higher wages than those whichguaranteed.
anyone can enter. A degree opens this door to higherIf you want to experience how life is for different
earnings as these careers demand a degree as acultures, then university supplies this. As a community
form of entry.colleges is basically a commuter campus the same as
One of the big attractions of going to a university isa school, the main student body is more likely to be
that you will be leaving home, living on campus andthose who can travel easily to it; so the cultural
embracing the whole college lifestyle. This is thediversity doesn't exist.
experience of a lifetime, which, sadly, communityThere are new friends and experiences to be had at
college students miss out on.a community college, but one the studying has finished
For those who have never lived alone or have neverfor the day, there s nothing there to provide evening
traveled much, the thought of living on campus andentertainment. The universities are rightly proud of the
meeting so many new people is what tips the balanceentertainment and trips that they provide for their
and makes them decide to opt for university. It is anstudents once the days lectures are over.