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Experts Worry as College Prices Approach
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Posted By: Imright, 8/22/2024 9:49:46 PM

Experts are sounding the alarm in the wake of college prices closing in on $100,000 per year when counting tuition, fees, room and board, books, and other living expenses. “Among the schools appearing on The Princeton Review’s ‘The Best 389 Colleges’ list, eight institutions — including New York University, Tufts, Brown, Yale and Washington University in St. Louis — have a sticker price of more than $90,000 for the 2024-25 academic year,” CNBC reported. Those tuition prices could well cross into the $100,000 territory come 2026 so long as the adjustments average roughly 4 percent a year.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: VAPMAN 8/22/2024 10:04:28 PM (No. 1783141)
Not a problem at all. Just take out a $400,000 government loan and wait for a leftist democrat president to forgive the loan. The leftist college professors will thank you for contributing to their 7 figure salaries and make big donations to the leftist democrat president. See how nicely that works. Of course if you are one of those deplorable working people, then your screwed. .
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Reply 2 - Posted by: seamusm 8/22/2024 10:26:37 PM (No. 1783150)
Even including technical and STEM curricula, these schools aren't worth it at one quarter of that price. In other courses of study, they're not worth a plugged nickel.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Lawsy0 8/22/2024 10:27:04 PM (No. 1783151)
A friend of mine took two college courses in England and has that on his C.V. He's now treated like royalty in his work community. US "institutions of higher learning" are anything from B*S* to huge waste of money. Unless you want to be in politics. That's about all colleges are good for. Loan forgiveness is Get Out of Jail Free.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Timber Queen 8/22/2024 10:29:02 PM (No. 1783154)
I wonder what the cost of college tuition would be, from the elite schools to public universities, if the concept of "student loans" had never been devised? The GI Bill after WWII was a magnificent idea. It unleashed an untold amount of ingenuity and creativity, laying the foundation for post war prosperity. Unfortunately, its success bred envy in subsequent generations among those who did not serve in the military. The Dem-communists used that envy to argue universal student loans as a way to "even the playing field" for those "unable to serve". What a load of cow manure. Alls that it did was dumb down universities with "Gender Studies" and other nonsense degrees. A college education today is worth less than my mother and father's high school diploma's did in 1920.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jiobaobubai 8/22/2024 11:24:17 PM (No. 1783171)
Approaching?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: erod111 8/22/2024 11:26:45 PM (No. 1783173)
It is high time to make universal college a thing of the past like buggy whips and land lines. Online certified learning of all the basic foundations of knowledge like history, geography, social studies can be done without going into debt and without creating a generation of "heads full of mush." Not every one is going to be a lawyer, or doctor. For everything else there is Wikipedia.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: msjena 8/22/2024 11:28:24 PM (No. 1783175)
And the "free"money keeps flowing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: skacmar 8/23/2024 12:40:15 AM (No. 1783184)
I wonder what the endowments of the $100,000 schools are and how much of that goes to student aid. Many donors give thinking it will benefit students by helping with tuition. All it really does is fatten the endowment and feed a bloated school bureaucracy. Is it time to require a minimum portion be used for financial aid and tuition reduction?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: kono 8/23/2024 2:14:35 AM (No. 1783190)
Sorry, you lost me at "experts".
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Trigger2 8/23/2024 4:41:30 AM (No. 1783195)
Gotta pay those professors more for their stupid indoctrination into demonrat values of communism and degeneracy..
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Trigger2 8/23/2024 4:45:27 AM (No. 1783196)
All brought about by the infamous BarryCare Act, not to mention the onorous interest they charged.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: 5 handicap 8/23/2024 5:39:01 AM (No. 1783216)
I'm beginning to despise the term "Expert"! It no longer has any meaning since most "experts", it seems, have no idea what the hell they're talking about!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: mifla 8/23/2024 5:57:48 AM (No. 1783223)
The number of kids with rich parents, both foreign and domestic, ensure that these high priced indoctrination centers will meet their enrollment quotas. No need to worry.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: DiegoDude 8/23/2024 6:17:00 AM (No. 1783238)
The myth of "if you don't go to college, you'll end up flipping burgers," is busted. We now have college grads flipping burgers because they got some worthless degree in "women's studies" or "17th century French underwater basket weaving" and can't do a thing with it. The exorbitant price went to pay salaries to people not even in the classroom since most classes are taught by "graduate assistants." My solution: go get a skilled trade if you want to make real money. But, you have to have a work ethic, which sadly, is missing in a lot of people nowadays.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Bur Oak 8/23/2024 7:44:31 AM (No. 1783318)
Go to a vocational-technical school and learn a trade.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Rather Read 8/23/2024 7:48:12 AM (No. 1783324)
Not where I live (although the prices are too high). I am urging my granddaughter to get as many college credits done in high school as she can so she will only have to go for two years. That's what my nephew did and it saved him a ton of money. He has a good job now.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 8/23/2024 8:26:06 AM (No. 1783347)
I've used the same plumber since he was a pup working for a handyman service. He now has his own business, numerous employees, owns a fleet of trucks, and recently expanded into electrical service. A few years ago, bought a million-dollar house in my neighborhood. He's proof-positive that you don't need to go to college to live well.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: jimincalif 8/23/2024 8:36:37 AM (No. 1783357)
Well, now that the “experts” are concerned, I guess we need to worry about it. Parents and students have known for years, but what do they know?
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Kate318 8/23/2024 9:59:35 AM (No. 1783437)
Young people and their parents are waking up to the scam of higher education. Men have already started to walk away and are exploring more practical means of making a living. The current university system is producing the young, feral females, with absolutely no critical thinking skills, just like that woman who majored in Women’s Studies and blew through $250,000 of inheritance. I have three grown sons. None of them went to college, and at the time, I felt I had failed as a mother. One son went back in his 30’s and got a degree in geology, a growing field with wide and varied work opportunities, but by that time, he was old enough to withstand the silly cultural messages of university life. Not only that, but the reality of paying for his education himself opened his eyes to the financial scam of college, as they nickled and dimed him every step of the way. My other 2 sons have been working in the field of their father’s business and are making a good living. They do not regret their choices. In retrospect, NOT going to college after high school was the right decision.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: privateer 8/23/2024 10:13:59 AM (No. 1783448)
I totally agree about skilled trades, and vocational schools. Those who follow that path do work that needs doing, and produce positive results that are indisputable. Whereas the very opposite applies to those whose path was a college major ending in 'studies'. Or invest that $100,000 in a food truck that sells burgers, pizza, sandwiches or tacos at building sites, festivals, or at bars that do not serve food. It's hard work...but everyone is happy to see you, and enjoys what you produce.
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