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Education in well-ranked private higher education institutions costs almost a million and a half pesos
DANIEL ESCOBAR
CANTON GROUP
Mexico City.- People who obtained their bachelor’s degree from a highly prestigious private university in Mexico would take up to more than 15 years to recover the investment, if current labor income trends continue.
Professionals and technicians earn on average just over seven thousand 500 pesos per month, according to open data from the Government of Mexico, while some of the private institutions of Higher education better evaluated, they charge more than 170 thousand pesos for six months of tuition.
In this sense, in some cases it will take more than 15 years for a graduate to recover the almost one and a half million pesos, which he invested in eight semesters to pay just the tuition fees for his prestigious school.
The above would fit the case of someone who, without a scholarship, graduates from Tecnológico de Monterreya university that appears in second place in the Mextudia ranking, since the institution currently charges an average of more than 170 thousand pesos per semester.
It should be noted that parallel to the data from the Government of Mexico, the Labor Observatory It is estimated that on average professionals receive 18,481 pesos per month, an assumption under which it will take more than six years for a graduate from the aforementioned school to recover what was spent on their education.
The result is worse when based on the diagnosis presented by the University of the Valley of Mexicoaccording to which university graduates in Mexico have an average monthly income of 13 thousand pesos.
María is the mother of an 18-year-old young man, who is studying law at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City, which currently costs 174,809 pesos per semester, and she confessed to feeling dismayed when Enough Diary He showed him the figures shown.
“The issue is that we always bring the idea that the more you study, the more you will earn, and we see that the salaries or income of someone like my son who I hope finishes, graduates, gets a degree, may not be what you expect, because you believe that what the school charges you is what you will receive later,” he commented.
