Tag: tuition
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The university as we know it won’t survive the next twenty years
Demographic decline, cost inflation, and credential alternatives are converging. Most US colleges are unlikely to look like themselves by 2045.
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Federal student loans caused tuition inflation, full stop
Tuition tripled in real terms while loans expanded freely. The economics aren’t subtle: easy money produced rising prices, and the Bennett hypothesis was right.
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Financial aid offers are deliberately confusing because schools profit from it
College financial aid letters mix grants, loans, and work-study without clear labels. The confusion isn’t a bug — it inflates net tuition by design.
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Public universities became expensive because states stopped funding them
Tuition didn’t explode because colleges got greedy. It exploded because states cut per-student funding by half — and the bill got moved to families.