If you are the sort of person who wouldn’t want to drag four more years of university life in your study career, after completing high school, trade school might prove to be a better option for you. Trade school is generally a vocational institute which is designed in a way to provide the students with technical skills in order to prepare them for a specific occupation. This way, you can receive a great education, job training as well as hands on experience, in a small period of around eight months to two years, so that once you graduate, you can directly get a job to your related field.
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Trade schools are becoming increasingly popular, and there are multiple reasons for that.
Cheaper cost of Education:
College prices reach the sky’s limit every year, which means it gets harder for people to manage their education in addition to the debts that they own in certain cases. According to “Simple Dollar” obtaining a degree in bachelors can cost an individual up to an average of $126000. In comparison to this, a trade school can end up offering you a savings of $94000.
[BUTTONS2]This gets worse with the high dropout rate of students from colleges and universities. Did you know, an estimate of about 40% of students drop out before completing their fourth year college education, either because they don’t find it worth the effort, or simply because the cost is insanely high. This leaves the students without a proper degree and a lifetime of debts to pay.
A student at trade school however, would end up better since not only would he have a good skill set with himself, but that too at a cheaper cost, one that he could even repay by working alongside.
Job Security of trade jobs:
Students, who spend four years trying to achieve their bachelor’s degree, when graduate, find themselves unable to secure a well paid job. Even if they do, there’s no security that they will be able to keep that job causing frustrations and a sense of worthlessness. Skilled trade jobs however are relatively more secure and safer since the demand for a skilled labour would never diminish.
Moreover, it isn’t entirely possible to outsource trade jobs, for example you would always need a plumber, electrician and HVAC technician to do your job, which can’t be done through a customer service agent overseas.
Specialized Programs produce desired skill sets:
Many companies and organizations are going at loss solely because the skills that the company and organization’s owners are looking for in their employs differ from the set of skills that the job seekers have. To cater this, many trade schools have developed a system that encourage strong relationships with the employers and introduces a platform that meets with the employer’s needs. In this way, the employer learns about the system that he is going to work in and this platform gives him a sense of belonging to his workplace. This is beneficial in fields like business, healthcare and technology. At the end, certificates are given which highlights the skills and experience that is needed to perform a specific job. Many employers benefit from this as these types of courses are led by instructors that have actual work experience in different fields.
Quicker path to earnings:
One of the many benefits of attending a trade school is that a student completes his degree in half the time of a student attending a college. This eventually means a trade school graduate will have an earning of two years or so. When you put this in account with the fact that a trade school costs less, it will eventually put a trade school graduate at a higher financial success.
People have a clouded judgement that a trade school offers courses such as carpentry etc, however now trade schools offer a variety of courses which means they might prove to be better than your four year bachelors program.