Why Does College Cost So Much?

Name: Why Does College Cost So Much?
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ISBN: 9780199744503

ISBN-10: 0199744505

ISBN-13: 9780199744503

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman

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College tuition has risen more rapidly than the overall inflation rate for much of the past century. Over the last thirty years, tuition growth has accelerated. The rhetoric of crisis now permeates public discussion of the cost of attendance. Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloatedadministration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States. The trajectory of college…

Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.42" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




Introduction



The Landscape of the College Cost Debate



Is Higher Education All That Unusual?



Costs



Higher Education Is a Service



The Costs of Employing Highly Educated Workers



Cost and Quality in Higher Education



The Bottom Line: Why Does College Cost So Much?



Is Higher Education Increasingly Dysfunctional?



Productivity Growth in Higher Education



Tuition and Fees



Subsidies and Tuition Setting



List-Price Tuition and Institutional Grants



Outside Financial Aid



The College Affordability Crisis



Policy



Federal Policy and College Tuition



Financial Aid Policy



Rewriting the Relationship between States and Their Public Universities



A Few Final Observations



Data on Costs and Prices



Granger Causality Tests of the Bennett Hypothesis


Notes


Bibliography


Index