[mixmastamyk]

Tuition has been increasing at a rate much greater than inflation for several decades, largely through price-insensitive loans. The idea that universities are struggling for money is not supported.

We need these Unis to cut costs and administrators. Propping up waste through courting rich foreigners is not a long-term solution.

[nels]

I agree that costs and administrative growth need to be cut, and that relying on international tuition is and should not a long-term fix. But international students are not the primary cause of rising costs or problems in universities as the original comment I responded to implied; tuition inflation, loan structures, and administrative expansion are.

[watwut]

Actually, yes, the state pays less per American student then it used it. That is large component of why the price went up, along with the expectation that universities act like a business.

The loans not being dischargable in bankruptcy does not help, but it was Republicans who were against those reforms.