College should be free

Liana La Rosa Fuente

Cub Reporter

Posted June 2, 2026

After finishing high school, many students have the desire to go to college. Some of them want to go to college to get a higher education and better payments in the future: some because their parents want them to go, or just simply because they want to settle better in their life. Getting higher education is important to someone and can bring a lot of opportunities for the people after they graduate from a college or university. However, there is a big problem that the majority of people who are not from upper social economic class have to think about when it comes to applying to college: the tuition fee.

 According to APM Research Lab, 80% of Americans support the idea of tuition free for students – among of them are women, immigrants, parents and part time workers – because college tuition keeps increasing and it’s difficult for people that come from low income and even middle income families to struggle in the payments of the tuition fee.

Yes, scholarships could help in some way to decrease the amount of money that you have to pay. However, many students have been expressing through social media how even after getting the scholarships they still struggle to pay full tuition for the college they want to attend. I had a friend who got accepted to her dream school and she was happy. However, even if she had the stats to go in, the FAFSA had given to her a low amount of money to pay for school, and the scholarships, even if she had won a bunch of them, they could not cover the entire year. It is sad seeing people feeling bad, or feeling their dreams are being already crushed just because they do not have the money to pay.

Getting education is a right that every human being needs, and getting free education will make society better. It is important to reconsider the idea and how beneficial it could be that college is free. I understand some people say that paying for college would make people work hard, but young people from the beginning, if they really want to get a better life, they would sign up for college  and that is enough to prove that someone will do well in college, whether it is free or not.