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THE FACTS
- According to Brett Arends, MarketWatch columnist, while current debate around college costs encompasses the price of student loans and increasing Pell Grants, what we should really be talking about is the actual costs of tuition.
- Recent graduates have paid three times as much for a 4 year degree as someone who graduated 30 years ago. The increase in tuition hasn’t gone towards improving the quality of our education, but to larger football stadiums, modern performing arts centers, and recruitment of famous professors who the majority of students will never take a class from.
- Basically, students are paying more in tuition without receiving any of the benefits, making their degree no better than the ones earned by a graduate in the 80s. From this analysis, it’s easy to see why Arends thinks US colleges are a rip off.
- Because we believe in affordable higher education for our generation.
We believe colleges have a larger responsibility to make learning more accessible.
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