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If it weren’t for public support, college would likely cost more. So, yes, it could be worse. Public support, though, reached its peak in the late 1980s and has steadily declined since.
The American higher education system is a complex beast -- it's actually 50 different systems spread across every U.S. state. Within each system are three subsystems of college costs: private...
At Bridgewater College in rural Virginia, we’re getting real about tuition by reducing our undergraduate sticker price by more than 60% starting next fall to make programs more clearly ...
College tuition in the United States is one of the costs of a post-secondary education. The total cost of college is called the cost of attendance (or, informally, the "sticker price") and, in addition to tuition, can include room and board and fees for facilities such as books, transportation, or commuting provided by the college.
For most public and private universities in the United States, there has been a drastic increase in the cost of attendance. Many of these institutions increase their costs annually beyond that of economic inflation. Trends have shown that compared to today, colleges, public and private, cost double of what is expected from economic inflation.
With the average cost of an undergraduate degree ranging from $25,707 to over $218,000 depending on a student’s resident status and institution, it’s natural to wonder why college is so ...
Cost of living increased roughly 3.25-fold during this time; medical costs inflated roughly 6-fold; but college tuition and fees inflation approached 10-fold. Another way to say this is that whereas medical costs inflated at twice the rate of cost-of-living, college tuition and fees inflated at four times the rate of cost-of-living inflation.
The sticker price for a college education can be quite shocking. In 2020-21, the cost of tuition and fees for a full-time student at a public four-year in-state school was $10,560, according to the...