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In reply to the discussion: This argument about having paid your loans and so should everybody else [View all]Zeitghost
(3,796 posts)45. It's econ 101
Universities are already running at capacity and almost all turn away kids, some by the tens of thousand. Flooding the market with cheap, easy to get debt will, and has, led to runaway tuition.
There is very little price competition in higher ed. Prices are largely set by how much FA the target students can qualify for.
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This argument about having paid your loans and so should everybody else [View all]
drray23
Aug 2022
OP
If an unfair system stops being unfair, somebody's going to take it in the shorts
gratuitous
Aug 2022
#4
Exactly. I graduated in 1995. When I started, tuition was $54 a credit hour. when I finished
Ray Bruns
Aug 2022
#18
Check out Norway: College students, even foreign ones, pay no tuition at all.
Ocelot II
Aug 2022
#56
I am glad to see money directed toward young people. We certainly left them with a screwed world.
NNadir
Aug 2022
#13
It is always better to give tax money to each other than to corporations & their investors.
NullTuples
Aug 2022
#20