Article: Why Is College in America So Expensive?

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/

Article suggests reasons like:

  • Students living away from home.
  • Higher cost of faculty and staff.
  • Greater tendency to chase full pay students.
  • More nonteaching staff.
  • Smaller classes.
  • Complexity of system makes it more difficult for the least informed students to make good decisions in the market.

Comparison is made to health care.

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