why are college costs so high, and why is no onr doing anything about it?

Answer 1

Colleges have to pay their professors, who usually spent upwards of 10 years in college - and get paid less than doctors and lawyers who spent less time in college. Colleges have to pay for space, buildings, janitors, gardeners, staff, cooks, tutors, living arraignments for many students, insurance, doctors, lawyers, the list goes on and on. Frankly, many college educations are cheap compared to how much it costs to run a college these days.

Answer 2

More and more students attend college every year. The colleges have to have new labs, new buildings, new dorms. and these days the students want air conditioned rooms, health clubs on campus, amazing dining halls with huge selections of different foods, famous bands to entertain them, computer labs full of state of the art computers, free printing, cable TV or ethernet or wireless in every room, etc etc....

If the same percent of kids went to college today as went 40 years ago, most of the new buildings would not be needed. If the kids were willing to put up with the living conditions that their parents and grandparents had to deal with, the colleges would be a lot cheaper to run.

Back in ancient history when I was in school the dorms were cleaned by work study students who made about $300 a term. Now they are cleaned by professional cleaners who make $8 an hour. Thanks goodness for illegal immigrants or it would be $12 an hour and tuition costs would have to be raised again. Someone has to pay for all these services and facilities. If it isnt the taxpayer, then it has to be the students.

Answer 3

College costs used to be really cheap, until universities decided to use 'inflation' as an excuse to raise the cost of tuition. The real reason however, lies also in the fact that colleges do not want to appear cheaper than their competition. For eg. if University X raises their tuition from 10,000 to 12,000, University Y, which might have a tuition cost of 11,000, would similarly raise it, perhaps to 12,500, to appear that they aren't any cheaper (and offering an inferior education) than University X. It is unfortunate, but very true.

People are trying to do things about it, especially those affected (college students themselves). Many lobby their universities to justify the increases in the costs, though they are still largely unsuccessful. More needs to be done indeed though.

Answer 4

Exactly, because they say so. If you don't play along you'll soon be eating Top Ramen and getting teeth pulled to avoid the cost of proper dental care, so pay up! Or you can eat and live like a minimalist and vote until the cost comes down, then attend.

Answer 5

because it is worth it, and by setting the price extremely high, a high profit can be made by the universities, which greatly increases their chances at becoming the most desired college in the nation, which is every college's goal


if education becomes more and more valued in the economic sense, an educational degree will therefore increase with in value....


sure...it now costs more to get an education...but it also pays more, too...:D

Answer 6

i think congress is doing something about it

Answer 7

greed buddy, greed