voatergoater

The cold hard truth.

WhoFramedReaderRabit

Why does schooling cost so much in the US?

Multiple reasons

  1. States used to fund Universities a lot more than they used too

"Pell Grants for students from poor families are falling further behind; they now cover only about a third of tuition and fees. (In the 1980s, they covered about half; in the 1970s, more than 70 percent.)"

http://robertreich.org/post/18496069594

  1. Now that almost anyone can get a student loan it create more demand which drives up prices
  2. Universities have a lot more amenities (pools, gyms, better cafeterias, updated dorms, etc)

I'm sure there's a lot more

Tangent-love

"WHY DOES SCHOOLING IN THE US COST SO DAMN MUCH?"

I think it is because student loans can be gotten by most anybody regardless of credit or job, and regardless of someone defaulting on their loan the school gets their money. So almost anyone can go to college now. I would wager that these schools also lobby for higher loan amounts too. higher guaranteed loan = higher tuition.

un1ty

Because the american school system is not about educating people - it is for profit and for compliance training. We need good little statists that believe American values trump personal liberties and freedoms for all of the world's inhabitants.

Ulluses

I'm working on my uni degree in the UK at the moment, gonna cost me about £9k round about for the whole thing plus maintenance loans. An american friends of mine did his a few years ago and is running upwards of £30k in loans, and the education it got him was so shit that he gave up on what he learned and self taught himself enough server management stuff to get a job as a tech assistant in three weeks.

His years at college in america were worth less for his professional life than three weeks of crammed learning and it cost him more money than he'd ever made before the job he has now.

I'm doing game design at the moment but I've already released games, worked for games companies. Thinking of ditching Uni entirely for a job at an innovation team at Airbus that I have an internship for right now. I really don't think Uni is worth the money outside of maybe networking, and that's over here in the UK, in America is costs 5 times the price!

relative_iterator

I believe it's partially due to the push for college education and the ease of getting student loans.