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Originally Posted by merrylander

I see no one has mentioned that the average tuition has been rising at 8% per year of late. Partly due to the slash and burn tactics of many GOP governators.

The reduction in state-level funding has nothing to do with it. Can you show me a college or university that has contracting enrollment, or is shrinking in size? Here in MI, the economic doormat of the United States, nearly every college / university has stable or better enrollment rates, and is expanding facilities to accommodate.

No, the increase in tuition is largely due to the proliferation and reduction on cost and risk (to the borrower) of student loans. Particularly now that the government has taken over student loans. Basic law of economics: make something cheaper and you increase demand, while also lowering the perceived value of the good or service in the marketplace. Most recent college graduates would suggest that the increased demand / reduction in perceived value is a familiar issue.

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Originally Posted by whell

The reduction in state-level funding has nothing to do with it. Can you show me a college or university that has contracting enrollment, or is shrinking in size? Here in MI, the economic doormat of the United States, nearly every college / university has stable or better enrollment rates, and is expanding facilities to accommodate.

No, the increase in tuition is largely due to the proliferation and reduction on cost and risk (to the borrower) of student loans. Particularly now that the government has taken over student loans. Basic law of economics: make something cheaper and you increase demand, while also lowering the perceived value of the good or service in the marketplace. Most recent college graduates would suggest that the increased demand / reduction in perceived value is a familiar issue.

Let me get this straight, enrollment is increasing, ergo more students per class, more people to pay salaries so the price must go up. Are they teaching fuzzy math in university now?

But they are not making it cheaper, anything but, tuition has outpaced inflation.

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Originally Posted by merrylander

Let me get this straight, enrollment is increasing, ergo more students per class, more people to pay salaries so the price must go up. Are they teaching fuzzy math in university now?

But they are not making it cheaper, anything but, tuition has outpaced inflation.

Kids in this country are pushed towards college whether they have a high likelihood of graduating or not. As a result, college drop out rates are climbing. Particularly in first and second year courses, the likelihood that the student will have face time, in class or otherwise, is getting lower all the time: Internet streamed or video-taped courses are more typical, so costs for instruction are low.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/10/...a-higher-rate/

Enrollment volume and cheap money are driving up tuition. If colleges were indeed hard pressed for cash by budget cuts, what's up with all of the construction on college campuses all over the country?