| I would posit that there is an increase in demand. More and more jobs are requiring a college education. Further, as colleges get bigger, scientific instrumentation becomes pricier, classrooms and facilities (stadiums, etc.) strive to keep up with tech upgrades, etc. the college's overhead increases. Colleges find themselves having to build new buildings and buy laser pointers, projectors, jumbotrons, campus-wide internet service, electron microscopes, usage credentials for expensive software and online research libraries, clean rooms, etc. and they pass the cost along to you. Then there is the cost of scholarships. Scholarships help decent schools compete for good students. Many schools have obscene football scholarships. My school has obscene chess scholarships. The final reason is "because they can". They're like hurricane price gougers.
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6 |