Virginia Postrel on the Higher-Education Bubble

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/12/virginia-postrel-on-the-higher-education-bubble

Virginia Postrel has a column up at Bloomberg View about federal student aid and skyrocketing college tuition: "Federal subsidies intended to make college more affordable may have encouraged rapidly rising tuitions....Figuring out exactly what's going on is tricky, because colleges price discriminate, offering steep discounts to some students while charging list prices to others. Treating published tuition as the real price of a college education is like believing the sticker price on a used car."

by Editor  |  Dec 9, 2011 at 7:11 am Related Topics:  Education receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list