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Prof. Turner
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3 April 2017
When students first start to apply to colleges, they mostly ask themselves, Should I
choose this college because of the tuition or should I not? College tuition is one of the most
consistently discussed topic when talking about colleges because they have such a significant
impact on people, more specifically the students. Education institutions, such as colleges, have
many injustices, but one injustice seems to stand out more than the others. Colleges are
increasing tuition and the increase is economically affecting students in a negative way. There
are reasons as to why colleges are increasing tuition and who benefit from this increase and who
The one social class that seems to be the most affected by this increase in tuition would
be the middle-class students. According to TakePart, there was a study done by Vanderbilt
University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Institute for Research in Higher Education
which shows that since 2008, college affordability has dropped in 45 states in the US. It also says
that 76% of the annual income of a middle-class family must go towards the students tuition and
expenses at a four-year public university. Sometimes it can get bad to the point where even
community college tuitions are just too high for middle-class students to afford. This situation
prompts students to rely on loans which will inevitably hurt them in the future. Student loans will
bring heavy student debt and the only reason for students choosing this road is because they want
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to get a higher education. Will Doyle, an education policy researcher at Vanderbilt says that
states are spending less on education, and the government hasnt done enough to keep tuition
affordable. Doyle is worried that the door for college is open for now, but not for future
generations if the economy keeps going in the direction that it is going in right now.
In the fall of 1971, Harvard University increased college tuition from $200 to $2,600.
According to a news article by John W. Schoen from CNBC news, since the 1971 Harvard
University tuition increase, 40 years later the tuition now stands at $45,278, without including
room and board. This enormous increase in tuition seems unbelievable but it is the reality that we
are living in today. Colleges spend more money on improving facilities, faculty, students,
research and instructional technology rather than improving efficiency, reducing costs, or
reallocating funds. Many colleges increase tuition so that they can compete better than other
According to the New York Times, about two-thirds of bachelors degree recipients
borrow money to attend college, either from the government or private lenders, according to a
Department of Education survey of 2007-8 graduates. Compared to the past, families are
becoming more disagreeing with the new tuition average. On average since 1980, college tuition
prices rise 7% a year. Comparing it to this year, the inflation rate is just 3.2%. As long as the
demand for the good (higher education) continues to rise, the price will also rise. The argument
of education being worth it no matter the cost, has had students as well as their families thinking
about it, leading to student taking money from the government which on average would be $1
billion every year, and in total, more than $1 trillion. While most loans dont have to be paid off
until after graduation, many students arent able to find jobs to subsidize the loan payments.
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Because of the schools expanding educational cost, more students are less ready to go to
school, particularly students of lower wage. The expansion in educational cost is additionally
diminishing the quantity of students ready to go to their dream school. As indicated by The Fiscal
Times, a current review by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA finds that the rate
of approaching students going to their top-choice school or college declined in 2011 to 57.9
percent, down from 60.5 percent in 2010. For the dominant part of students, they picked not to
go to their dream school because of budgetary reasons. Numerous students are deserting the 4
year university course all together by going to 2 year university to get into the work compel
sooner.
More established generations stick to the possibility that college education is the way to
an impeccable life. Be that as it may, this thought is ending up plainly progressively old.
Overviews demonstrate that individuals are ending up plainly more incredulous of the real
estimation of a school training in this economy. Four years prior, 81% of individuals trusted that
a school instruction is a decent venture. That number has fallen strongly to 57% because of a mix
of absence of accessible employments and the expanding cost of universities. This makes an
oddity that puts students in a difficult situation. Keeping in mind the end goal to locate a great
job, one must have an advanced education, however, the job is not always going to be secured.
The people who benefit from college tuition increases are people who are controlling
everything in the college. The staff such as the president of the college, the financial facilitators
of the college and even also the professors of the college. The president of the college gets more
money from college tuitions because of the increase and so do the other departments that work in
the college. The professors get their pay from 50% of the college tuitions and with an increase,
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