<p>coase - I guess the difference in the analogies I see is that the venture capitalist is investing in the business but the college isn’t making the investment in the student - the student is making an investment in themselves with the college simply providing a service.</p>
<p>Another issue with this idea - it seems that budgeting would be a nightmare since it’d be very difficult to know what the actual incoming revenue would be since it varies with everyone’s job or even their desire to work or not.</p>