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Why does colleges have to be that expensive? I'd love to study, but simply can't afford it. Other countries can do it for less, why can't we?


Waste on ever growing administration overhead and top tier administration salary combined with prestige construction unrelated to academic or research success.

Fueled by cheap loans difficult to discharge in bankruptcy, a cultural idea that everybody needs a degree to be a worthwhile person, and a glut of degree-bearing people competing for lower and lower tier jobs.


Because the truth is that modern college is simply not efficient and I would even say is against adopting new technologies due to teacher unions.

I want wikipedia university! Too bad their side project into that (wikiversity) is a failure.




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