Bruce Rastetter Says Tuition Should Not Rise More Than Incomes

CTTB78

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Is he referring to only in-state tuition? Is so, then it makes sense.
 

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Pretty sure government student loans can go to private schools, as well as getting any private student loans from banks and what not. Private schools just don't get state appropriation funding.

And that's my point. Government has been trying to push college attendance through the student loan process. Higher demand creates higher prices in an absence of equivalently high supply. In addition, the continually increasing cost of attending public colleges helps private colleges increase their rates as well.
 

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And that's my point. Government has been trying to push college attendance through the student loan process. Higher demand creates higher prices in an absence of equivalently high supply. In addition, the continually increasing cost of attending public colleges helps private colleges increase their rates as well.
This doesn't make sense for our college system. We do have equivalently high supply. There are thousands of colleges around the U.S., and hundreds of large, publicly-funded ones. Supply is no issue here. However, if we tell people to stop going to college, that supply will dwindle down with the loss of demand... Which won't help costs to those still operating. Same with cutting down on appropriation rates by the state, that's not going to make tuition cost less by any stroke of the imagination. It'll cost more in order to make up that loss.

That's not to say that there isn't fat to trim off in the school system, because there is. There just needs to be a better way to manage that, as cutting funding will raise prices in the short term (if not permanently). What do you want to change about the student loan process to fix this?
 

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This doesn't make sense for our college system. We do have equivalently high supply. There are thousands of colleges around the U.S., and hundreds of large, publicly-funded ones. Supply is no issue here. However, if we tell people to stop going to college, that supply will dwindle down with the loss of demand... Which won't help costs to those still operating. Same with cutting down on appropriation rates by the state, that's not going to make tuition cost less by any stroke of the imagination. It'll cost more in order to make up that loss.

That's not to say that there isn't fat to trim off in the school system, because there is. There just needs to be a better way to manage that, as cutting funding will raise prices in the short term (if not permanently). What do you want to change about the student loan process to fix this?

I do not believe that supply is increasing equivalently with demand, unless your idea is that adding another chair in a lecture hall increases. If supply was increasing right along with demand (in a free market), prices would be static.

Here's an interesting graph for you

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