In recent years, pursuing higher education has become increasingly widespread. Although this development is not without benefits, I am convinced that its overall impact is negative for two key reasons.
The primary reason why this is a negative development is that competition for getting into university causes mental health problems. This is because preparing for it requires big effort and long time. Students may struggle to learn complex topics, resulting in academic pressure, burnout, or stress. For example, they do their best for getting into university with the highest score among others by only studying and forget to relax for refreshing. Therefore, the increasing number of people attending university have to spend their time and money for physical wellbeing.
Another factor that makes this development negative is financial burden. In particular, when individuals pursuing higher education at university, they have to pay for tuition fees and commuting, resulting in working at part-time jobs. For example, some students will work as a deliverer or waiter at part-time jobs so as to find money for accommodation features such as drinking, eating, or staying. Hence, such financial difficulties can influence their studies by losing balance.
To conclude, despite the undeniable effects associated with pursuing a higher education, I believe that it is overall a negative development due to mental health problems and financial burden.