Purposes of college education (as perceived by CPU freshmen)

Abstract

What do young people perceive as the purposes of college education? To discover their purposes for going to college, freshmen were asked to rate as highly important, of average importance, or of low importance eight statements of purposes of college education. They were invited to write additional purposes of a college education, if there were any they wanted to add. Then each stated purpose was scored. A weight of 3 was given to each response of ‘‘high’’; 2 to each response of ‘‘average"; and 1 to each response of ‘‘low". Tables were then prepared to show how the various groups of students ranked these purposes.