College "tuition" have gone up 500% in 10 years? Kinda hard to believe. What college "fee" has gone up that much - the Janitorial Services Fee from $2 to $10 dollars?



That awesome your telling everyone you're laughing, keeping the Forum alive - kinda delusional point but whatever.

This post was edited by card_sultan on Jun 25 2015 05:17pm

textbooks are also a scam on their own

1985-2011 =/= 10 years. And 500% is the cumulative effect over that span.

I agree , they should all be one flat fee or at least more reasonable ones - were trying to educate people after all, not entertain them.

Do you have one with private schools excluded? There's some private schools I was looking at that were 50k ten miles from a perfectly good state school that was 15k. That number might be skewed by higher cost from those, I know they make up a huge chunk of student loan debt.

I just find it odd that that chart shows the word "Fee" and I think that is obviously supposed to represent tuition when it's clearly not.





This post was edited by card_sultan on Jun 25 2015 05:28pm

I don't. I did find an article from 2007 from the NYT stating public college inflation outstripped private, but that it was the other way around the year prior (both within a percentage point of each other each time). It would stand to reason that they track each other closely because they must compete with each other for faculty and high-quality students.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/education/23tuition.html?_r=0

This post was edited by Santara on Jun 25 2015 05:33pm

I see nothing odd about including the word fee, as it's obviously a stand-in for anything college expense related that isn't tuition, like books or lab fees.

It would be interesting to see out of state tuition vs. in-state at those schools, because that could make a lot of difference as well in the cumulative price. I'm not saying that an education is cheap especially throwing in a few years of post grad.

The books are high and I understand the price to a point. I think a better buy back policy would be good for the core classes. less than cents on the dollar is a pretty shitty exchange rate. And the dicks who demand that their books be purchased for the class, and then never teach or test from them need some electroshock treatments just for kicks.

ah so its not simply tuituition that your talking about - but the additional fees that have risen so much - and you think its Democratic policies are the reason those fees have increased?

I really don't know what to say , you'd have to talk about a specific fee - like the cost of textbooks - but again there i don't see how you can blame Democrats - but rather owners of those Companies that publish those books and they are probably if not all Republican owners who control them.

Democrats don't control the world - just parts of the Government.

This post was edited by card_sultan on Jun 25 2015 05:48pm