There is a wise proverb that attain knowledge from cradle to grave, relation between human and knowledge is very ancient different people with their divergent needs keen to achieve university college degree, as far as I concerned I totally agrees that gaining different experience, making new carrier and increasing knowledge are most significant reasons behind joining university/college.
Many on-job persons may get tired form their everyday routine work related activities and want to get something divergent, this could be a reason to join university to meet new people or study something different than their profession, teenagers and young peoples are very obsessive about their carrier as part of life-cycle they get their basic education in early life than their parents and society except them to choose a proper carrier and this could be a precursor for young people to get to college university to make their carrier in particular field.
One of the most significant reason which brought people to colleges is to gain knowledge many professionals who already in their carrier want promotion or want to fortify their skills in their respective field brings them to university, no offense a university degree catalyze many new opportunities and opens avenues of success that they wouldn’t have otherwise had, on the other hand many professional consider to change their carrier because of un-satisfaction or primarily interested to setup their own business, university education facilitate them adequate amount of exposure to get on track.
By summing up getting higher education is highly correlated with person’s own needs and wants regardless of race, age and nationality, universities and colleges