On the cost of Education

[Belsnickel]

(07-27-2016, 04:57 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: That's very interesting.  All looks very reasonable - for in-state tuition.  And that's probably how it should work.  Of course, if you're not smart enough to get into one of your better state schools....

But so either out-of-state students are getting gouged, or there's already a huge amount of money from state & federal going into college education (which, of course, is also true before we even get to subsidized loans).  And probably a combination of both.  There was a huge premium out-of-state at my school way back when I went there too, so always kind of been that way.

I did read some articles that said most of the increase is going to administrative costs.  One school or system had seen like a 230% increase over the past decade in EMPLOYEES, and many of those are making 6-figures.  There's some debate that this is caused by easy money (although most arguing against that appear to be college administrators  ).

Interestingly enough, we get a lot of kids from NJ because it is still cheaper than their own state school.

But yeah, the price for out of state is insane. As for employees, we have had some increase that has to come with increased enrollment. So that is something that has to be balanced. But Virginia doesn't let us pay shit, so there is that.