[enumjorge]

That’s the thing the puzzles me. Some of these universities’ annual tuition amounts to a healthy 1 year’s salary. How did they operate when this wasn’t the case?

[gowld]

They didn't build luxury spa resorts on campus to impress students and US News & World Report, in a mad race for govt guaranteed loan funds.

Universities used to look like high schools, and still do in many parts of Europe (and at community colleges).