When you ask a high school student the question: would you like to receive a higher education, the answer is most recently yes. For what? Because most often, for a high school student, higher education means a chance of success. But choosing the right college depends on how one defines this term. The classic definition of success is the achievement of a goal or objective. The question then is: what is the purpose of higher education? Is it to prepare us for a specific career? Or is it up to us to receive a broader, more worldly education with which we can find both our passion and our infinite opportunities? The first option can be found at any large professionally oriented university. The second is at a liberal arts school. In fact, the second option is the one many new high school seniors should turn to, after much research has been published indicating that graduate students are more "successful" coming out of a liberal arts college than from a major research university. . In fact, the idea that liberal arts colleges are the “hidden league” is increasingly popular in today's society. The assumption many make is that attending a liberal arts college to earn a bachelor's degree costs a lot of money, with no returns. on investment. This means that a liberal arts education will not help students find jobs or repay the loans that most of them take out to continue their education. It is safer to attend a larger university, perhaps less expensive. Yes, it's true, not everyone needs an expensive liberal arts education for the career they would like to pursue, especially if they know they want to pursue it. “Suppose a young woman is in the 98th percentile of academic... middle of paper ... achievements. Most often, our motivation is to achieve financial comfort. The argument against enrolling in liberal arts colleges is that financial comfort cannot be achieved after graduation. This is obviously a flawed argument. So why not invest in education that will bring us both prosperity and valuable education? Works Cited Rivas, R. “Liberal Arts Colleges – The Hidden Ivy League Schools.” College Node. Np, July 27, 2013. Web. January 14, 2014. Murray, Charles. “Are too many people going to college?” They say, I say. 2nd ed. Np: WW Norton & Company Incorporated, 2011. N. pag. Print.Brown, Adam. “Liberal Arts College vs. University.” The Admissions Center. Np, October 5, 2010. Web. January 16, 2014. Roth, Michael. “What is the point of a liberal arts education?” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, December 1, 2008. Web. January 16. 2014.