1) Why has the cost of a college degree gone up?
2) Students borrow money and don't end up finishing college, so they are in debt without a degree. Is the money issue a scare to stop schooling?
3) How are we suppose to make colleges more productive places?
Your second question is really scary to me, even though I've already finished college. I don't know that I have a satisfactory answer, although the Marxist in me is saying YES. I would like to think, however, that the rising cost of college is a result of the rising cost in everything else (salaries, maintenance of facilities, etc), not because anyone has some bad motive.
ReplyDeleteI think the cost of a college degree has gone up a lot because it is also worth a lot more now a days. A while ago you could actually make money without a degree. Also, in the article he mentions it is because colleges compete with one another, they want to have the best campus and what not so that more people will want to go there. If they are spending more on their school, they have to charge more also to support this spending.
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