When Bernie or Elizabeth are in office, the price of college will drop significantly. College will be FREE!!

Vote socialist in 2020!!

...which is why I found a job that offered tuition remission (Hopkins). It’s the only reason I went back to work. My husband makes $400k and there is no way we would ever get financial aid. There is no way I’m going to pay those jacked up tuition prices, I don’t care how much money we have.

My Freshman year tuition was 900 a year and we protested as they wanted to raise it. Today schools like Syracuse Jack it up 5k in a single year and parents bend over and take it.

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Anonymous wrote:Wisconsin had a tuition freeze for years when REPUBLICAN Scott Walker was in office. Now the new Governor - Dem - is most likely reversing that.

Thanks, Dems!

Walker also gutted the university. Evers understands how important it is to the state.

Walker's damage to the U of W system (which was a very well-functioning, reasonably priced public system) is unconscionable and will take decades of investment to recover the ground he lost. The money "saved" by a tuition freeze of reasonably priced institutions is a drop in the bucket compared to all that was lost. Madison though damaged, will emerge fine as a internationally recognized university--but will probably serve the state of WI less well as they rely on more OOS and international students, but the smaller agricultural and technical colleges that served local populations and provided important services to rural populations as well as education are seriously gutted.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I graduated in 1997, and it was $25k a year at a private New England college. Now it’s probably over $60k. People also make double.

Salaries aren't double what they were in 1997. Tuition increases have way outpaced increases in salaries. Housing price increases have also significantly outpaced salary increases, so those two combined make college that much less affordable.

The people who can afford to full pay can afford double. Someone is paying tuition, and colleges are getting many more applications than they have spaces for. Sorry you can’t afford it.

Wow. I guess this poster believes there is room for college tuition to double. My guess is that it will come crashing back to Earth when we simultaneously achieve live-quality online instruction and a demographic age cohort decline in 5-8 years.

Anonymous wrote:Wisconsin had a tuition freeze for years when REPUBLICAN Scott Walker was in office. Now the new Governor - Dem - is most likely reversing that.

Thanks, Dems!

Walker also gutted the university. Evers understands how important it is to the state.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I graduated in 1997, and it was $25k a year at a private New England college. Now it’s probably over $60k. People also make double.

Salaries aren't double what they were in 1997. Tuition increases have way outpaced increases in salaries. Housing price increases have also significantly outpaced salary increases, so those two combined make college that much less affordable.

The people who can afford to full pay can afford double. Someone is paying tuition, and colleges are getting many more applications than they have spaces for. Sorry you can’t afford it.

U.S. Colleges and universities aim to provide both a public good (educated citizenry, research and scholarship, cultural center/events) and a private good (educated individual, better employment outcomes). They aim to operate both as a meritocracy (you usually can't just purchase admission--without fraud at least--see earlier thread, qualifying students receive financial aid, merit aid is given to the strongest students, no matter how much you pay you have to do the work and pass the courses) but also as a place where those with assets have more options (not all schools are need-blind). As the cost rise, tensions around this public good/private good split are exposed and stressed in strange ways.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I graduated in 1997, and it was $25k a year at a private New England college. Now it’s probably over $60k. People also make double.

Salaries aren't double what they were in 1997. Tuition increases have way outpaced increases in salaries. Housing price increases have also significantly outpaced salary increases, so those two combined make college that much less affordable.

The people who can afford to full pay can afford double. Someone is paying tuition, and colleges are getting many more applications than they have spaces for. Sorry you can’t afford it.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I graduated in 1997, and it was $25k a year at a private New England college. Now it’s probably over $60k. People also make double.

Salaries aren't double what they were in 1997. Tuition increases have way outpaced increases in salaries. Housing price increases have also significantly outpaced salary increases, so those two combined make college that much less affordable.

+1

The 2019 equivalent of $25K in 1997 is $39,800. And no, salaries are not double what they were in 1997.

Anonymous wrote:No. I graduated in 1997, and it was $25k a year at a private New England college. Now it’s probably over $60k. People also make double.

Salaries aren't double what they were in 1997. Tuition increases have way outpaced increases in salaries. Housing price increases have also significantly outpaced salary increases, so those two combined make college that much less affordable.

If OP only wanted an answer regarding Northwestern tuition OP would have put that in the subject line. It's a general question about a general problem, and all of the above discussed is related.

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Anonymous wrote:Source please.

It's right there in the string of quotes. Try to keep up.

Spans too long a time period to know who was doing what. It's much more typical of R's to cut education funding. The article simply shows the relationship between cuts and tuition increases.

And this is relevant to the OP (private universities) how??

Purdue hasn't raised prices in 8 years and doesn't plan to until 2021 at least.

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Anonymous wrote:Source please.

It's right there in the string of quotes. Try to keep up.

Spans too long a time period to know who was doing what. It's much more typical of R's to cut education funding. The article simply shows the relationship between cuts and tuition increases.

Anonymous wrote:Source please.

It's right there in the string of quotes. Try to keep up.