<p>I personally fail to see the connection between nice housing and never leaving. I can’t imagine any average, must-work-for-a-living person being able to avoid leaving college–aid dries up; any parental contribution starts to disappear; the kid needs to get out into the world. So college dorms or apartments are getting nicer–I honestly doubt that’s the reason behind graduation rates changing.</p>
<p>UCB: Generally, the dorms built in the early 1960s at PA. public colleges have not aged well. From the outside at least, they look really worn out. I haven’t been inside, because they purposefully don’t put them on the tour.</p>
<p>A number of colleges have found they had to replace their 1960s housing because of poor construction, including UVa. UVa originally were going to replace their early 1950s housing, until they did the analysis and found out the early 1950s housing was in great shape, but the late 1960s housing was about to fall down. </p>
<p>There have been some periods when construction quality across the country went down the toilet.</p>