A college education should be viewed as an investment. Will you earn more than you spent on receiving the diploma? In most cases, the answer is yes.
However, new research covered in Newsweek finds an emerging link between education and marriage, perhaps a profit channel ignored from the college investment. Although I'm a bit late for Valentine's Day, here are a few highlights I pulled from the article:
Stevenson said the data indicate that modern college-educated women are more likely than other groups of women to be married at age 40, are less likely to divorce, and are more likely to describe their marriages as "happy" (no matter what their income) compared with other women.
The marriages of well-educated women tend to be more stable because the brides are usually older as well as wiser.
College-educated couples are also more likely to marry for companionship and love and compatibility rather than for financial security.
Today, educated women are a lot less concerned about how much their husband earns," she said, and more interested in whether "he is willing to share child care and housework."
The final point of the article sums up the major beneifit:
If you're looking for another reason to encourage a young woman to get her college degree, add this one to the list: chances are, you'll be luckier in love.
It makes perfect sense to me, half the people I know are married to people they met while at college too. Even those who used to use a temporary fake diploma to get by met some great people and now have happy marriages.
A college education should be viewed as an investment. Will you earn more than you spent on receiving the diploma? In most cases, the answer is yes.
