[rahimnathwani]

My instinct is to agree with you, but I've not yet found a reasonable justification for compelling a private company to publish the set of prices with which it has transacted with each of a large number of private individuals.

There may be many reasons you want your scholarship/discount information to remain private. Perhaps you got a great deal, and you don't want your roommate to feel bad if s/he didn't? Perhaps you don't want people to know you paid full price or paid zero, thereby exposing that you are at one end of the wealth scale?

Releasing only anonymised data may help with concerns for individual privacy. Degree-granting institutions are licensed by the government, so perhaps you can argue that releasing anonymised data on this sort is a fair trade for being granted that privilege.