Should College Students Have Complete Freedom To Choose Their Own Courses?

	College education is the key milestone in one’s life in pursue to the professional career as it delineates the opportunities and the scope. Conversely, giving complete freedom to choose their own courses can escort college students to the fantasy goals more, and a career building approach less. In my opinion, partial freedom should be yielded to college students, not the complete rights. 

	By partial freedom I mean counselors steering the college students to opt for the courses, though final decision lies with later. Rendering them complete freedom can cause dawdling effects as most of the juveniles would not do proper research of the courses material and will choose according to their interests, without actually analyzing the scope and other deciding factors. For instance, large number of undergraduates opting for technology or mechanical engineering would disqualify the importance of the trigonometry class, though it’s vital. 

	Common notion among the group of high-school pass-outs is to go for fancy courses that present a chance to land into dreamland career, but college dropout ratio of the first year full-time students tells a different story. Students, who choose courses just based on their interests, without much needed research or planning, may score higher to start with but fall flat later on with staggering demands of the professional courses. If there is no selection criteria set, undergraduates would skip courses that they dislike, instead of going for subjects that help them build a successful career. 

	Structure of complete freedom to choose courses may work if put into practice accurately in the developed countries, but the developing countries would undergo the mayhem. You ask 1000 college entering students about their likes and they will choose medicine, music, movies or career that offers fame. Such ferocity for name and fame can create absolute imbalance in terms of specialist professionals, in the countries under development.

	Epigrammatically, aspects like ambiguity of the students, lack of awareness, zeal for fame and lack of research and preplanning are block-stones in allowing college students to choose courses on their own with complete freedom. However, proper blend of guidance and freedom to choose will empower strong education system!