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by Mathnerd314 2431 days ago
There I think it's just supply and demand. Around the 1970s the job market shrunk and suddenly everyone wanted a college degree so they could get a decent job. The pressure's continued to increase to the point where you have 400+ students in an introductory classroom. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21951104/ns/us_news-education/t/mo...

There are some new universities being founded to increase supply, but online education is taking off too.