Problem: Tuition and the high cost of University Education

With student debt outstanding topping 1.2 trillion, parents, students and researchers are asking: Why does college cost so much? Here are some reas... (2015)

Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. In this latest episode, Marc and Ben tackle the uni... (2024)

Rich compensation in academia has long drawn skepticism, or scorn, apparent most recently in the tax legislation. "Hatch is one of 58 college pr... (2017)

College is obviously expensive, but is it still a wise investment? On average, foregoing college in favor of entering the workforce + investing tu... (2017)

The California Sunday Magazine The College Try Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked a... (2017)

The California Sunday Magazine, 2017: "The College Try: Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But the... (2017)

Wall Street Journal, 2017: "Results of a standardized measure of reasoning ability show many students don’t improve much over four years—even at s... (2017)

Marginal REVOLUTION, 2013: "Here, drawn from my new e-book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance (published by TED)  is part of a section on colle... (2011)

Colleges have cut programs amid a drop in international enrollment tied to several factors, including more restrictive immigration policies. (2018)

Let's make 2018 the year student loan debt begins to become unacceptable. "Student loans haven’t paid off for most young parents. Overall only 5... (2018)

Nearly everyone pursuing a bachelor’s degree is borrowing money, and as prices soar, a college degree often comes with an unprecedented financial b... (2018)

America's nagging problem with college dropouts managed to get the tiniest bit worse this year. The National Student Clearinghouse reports that 55 ... (2018)

Trinity College is breaking the $70,000 barrier, charging $71,000 next year for tuition, room and board and fees. (2018)

Mark Cuban, 2012: "Its far too easy to borrow money for college. Did you know that there is more outstanding debt for student loans than there is... (2017)

Fewer than 1 in 5 rural adults ages 25 and older have college degrees. (2018)

I have spent a lifetime in education. Now I am dying. There are a few things I want to get off my chest. (2018)

Sure, a degree from Harvard or Stanford can change a low-income student's future. But consider the twist in this story by Josh Kenworthy: It turns ... (2017)

AUTOMATION and globalisation have brought drastic changes to Western labour markets. Middle-skilled jobs are disappearing fast. In America, wages f... (2018)

For the poor, higher education may hurt more than it helps. (2018)

The outrageous price of a U.S. degree is unique in the world. (2018)

College in the United States is expensive. The cost of higher education just keeps going up. Tuition costs at both public and private universities ... (2019)

Schools in the National Universities category, such as the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University, offer a full range of undergraduate majo... (2019)

Universities could have used online learning to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Instead they allowed forprofit companies to devou... (2019)

Growing up, my dream was to become a teacher. And I knew that if I wanted to teach, I had to get a college degree. I managed to get a college schol... (2019)

States and the public colleges they fund continue to feel the economic downturn's effects, even after a decade of recovery, according to a new repo... (2019)

Schools have been on a mission to reinvent campus libraries—even though students just want the basics. (2019)

The sad bloom of higher education liars and con artists that has attracted the attention of the American public, isn’t anomalous, but rather system... (2019)

A funding crisis at the University of Alaska tells a larger story about crumbling state support for public colleges and universities across the nat... (2019)

Success shouldn’t depend on an expensive degree. “On the surface, universities are a nice idea. You go in, pick a subject you like, learn from t... (2019)