No really, legitimate question here
Not a "hurt amerishit sux XD" thread
Why do we hear stories of college tuition fees cost thousands of dollars each semester?
Here in Norway, even the highest ranking university here has a tuition fee of just $75 each semester. Though some prefer to pay $100 so that $25 go to charity for starving niglets in Africa
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Because we have a government that subsidizes universities without actually operating them. As in, they just hand colleges a blank check and say, "lol, charge whatever you want, we'll pay you the extra shekels." This obviously inflates costs, because colleges can get away with charging whatever the fuck they want. Really the worst of both worlds. Capitalist greed combined with socialist meddling.
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It's about $900 a paper down here, which works out to ~$7,000 a year. But the cost has been creeping up for decades. It used to be free.
No idea where the money goes.
The government disrupts market prices by subsidies.
It's basically a giant welfare programme for the financial industry.
Everything is gonna crash in the next 10-12 years or so. This is exactly what happened with the housing crisis. People are just giving out student loans like they have infinite money. They won't be paid back.
Having your assignments behind a paywall really makes you think.
Oh fug DDD:
idk know, they got some brutal rules on student loan debt. right? I've had two our three college graduates work for me, barely high school and few college courses.
>idk know
kys faggot
grammar police in full force.
At some point the American college meme will collapse.
Can't wait to short it though and laugh at retarded millennial libs with shit degrees
nailed it. that's why universities weren't affected by the recession. constantly stream of guaranteed pell grant and student loan money that any mongrel can get approved for
people that recourse to semantic discussion in a discourse of ideas are utterly ignorant.
You get what you pay for. There's a reason that despite having so many stupid niggers and mexicans being cranked through the educational system we still have such high ranking universities.
However, there is another reason, and a large part of it is that the department of education is basically an investment banking scheme disguised as a government agency, and that State-guaranteed student loans mean that colleges can charge arbitrarily high rates for whatever they want.
The system is expensive but it does produce impressive results, the problem is that nobody examines the actual causes of its expense and instead focuses on buzzwords like forgiving student debt--which wouldn't decrease the cost at all, it would just shift it onto the taxpayer, ultimately accomplishing nothing.
pretty sure no escaping student loan debt.
Affirmative action admitting people who have no business going to college
Bullshit majors like gender studies and medieval japanese folklore that can't get you a job but are there for people to "just follow their passion xD"
Amenities that have nothing to do with education like Starbucks and state of the art gyms on campus
Student loans are investments, and due to all the people picking shit majors and being unable to pay them back the risk increases. Job market is also pretty fucked these days so even if you do pick a good major you might have a hard time
basically this. which is a long winded way to say: corrupt legislators
This. Same reason
>Medical care
>Real estate
>new cars
and anything else you pay for out of someone else's pocket are so damn expensive.
>Affirmative action admitting people who have no business going to college
Small fragment compared to legacies and athletes.
>Here in Norway
Nobody's heard of Norwegian universities, so keep that in mind
>Why is US college tuition so damn expensive?
Because of the student loan bills passed in the 1970's, and bills passed in the early 2000s making it impossible to discharge student debt in bankruptcy. Thus, there are no market mechanisms whatsoever governing the price of tuition, and thus, no costs to institutions for failure. Guaranteeing the payment of money to universities bloats their administrative costs, increases non academic expenditures, encourages corruption, and pulls all stops on the inflation of tuition.
Oh yeah athletes too.
Sports cost a lot of money and only football and basketball actually make anything.
>No idea where the money goes.
That and million dollar supermagnets for the MRI machines.
Ignore rest of posters.
Real reasons:
1) lack of state funding for public universities. Used to be 75-25 state and individual now it is flipped
2) free government money
3) nationalized market, with ensuing arms race, tuition-free international students
4) employ a metric FUCK TON of admins deans who don't do shit
Shouldn't giving subsidiaries make it cheaper??
No, when the government subsidizes things, the principals can gradually inflate costs without consequences, because its hard to stop subsidies once they're in place. When the government subsidizes, 99% of the time it becomes some kind of corruption. The state subsidy winds up become payment for political patronage somehow.