TOEFL ESSAY Hello! I'm practicing for Toefl (actually the day is getting close). I will appreciate if someone could help me in the correction. Wish you all the best. Carol. Topic - Why go to university? A few decades ago, higher education was not so usual. People used to have more possibilities to find a job after finishing high school. However, nowadays things have changed. Competition has increased in global level; hence employees need to be more qualified in order to fulfill the company’s requirements, which are getting much more challenging and difficult to achieve. In this case, university is the key point to a person’s development. Firstly, the student will get more knowledge, and he/she will be able to apply the theory in a business routine whatever the field. Secondly, living in a campus life will allow students to be close to professors who might have a lot of experience in the practical aspect, which it makes possible to learn under the perspective of different situations as well. Also, college or university is good place to make friends and raise your networking. Finally, if you want to become a specific professional, for example an engineer or a doctor, you need to take a degree to prove you have studied and have the right knowledge, which is not in the basics education. Furthermore, after you will have finished higher education, the probability to get a good job with a reasonable payment will increase. Today’s companies normally require specific labor and staff, and many of them only contract people with higher education on resume. Going to a college or university is very important to gain more knowledge, experience passed by the professors and make different contacts and friends. Consequently, you will be more likely to become a better person, to get a better job and develop a career compared to those who had basics education only.