Five Ways Education Pays

Houston school buses promote higher ed

Watch the College Board outfit Houston school buses with Five Ways Ed Pays advertisements, a new college awareness campaign to promote the value of a higher education.
Five Ways: Better Health

Did you know, individuals ages 25 to 34 with a 4-year college degree are 70% more likely to engage in vigorous exercise than those with only a high school diploma?
More
Five Ways: Closer Family

Did you know, parents with 4-year college degrees are 68% more likely to have attended a concert or live show with their children than parents with only a high school diploma?
More
Five Ways: Greater Wealth

Did you know, individuals with a 4-year college degree earn an average of $22,000 more per year than those with only a high school diploma?
More
Five Ways: More Security

Did you know, individuals with only a high school diploma are about twice as likely to be unemployed as those with a 4-year college degree?
More
Five Ways: Stronger Community

Did you know, individuals ages 18 to 24 with a 4-year college degree were 75% more likely to vote in the 2008 election than those with only a high school diploma?
More

Five Ways Ed Pays: The Campaign

For most students who go to college, the increase in their lifetime earnings far outweighs the costs of their education. That’s a powerful argument for college. But more income is by no means the only positive outcome students can expect. More security, better health, closer family, stronger community, these, in addition to greater wealth, are the real value of a college education.

Five Ways Ed Pays gives you the tools to help students, and their families, explore the benefits of going to college. Share the facts about how higher education can change a student's life and lifestyle by hanging a poster in your office or sharing the brochure with a parent.

The Houston Independent School District is the first district in the nation to participate in a pilot of the Five Ways Ed Pays campaign to promote the value of education to individuals and society. In May 2011, all middle and high schools in Houston will receive brochures and posters in English and Spanish promoting the campaign and 50 Houston ISD school buses will be outfitted with campaign advertisements.

Creation of the Five Ways Ed Pays campaign is supported in part by the Gene A. Budig Fund for First-Generation College Students.