> but by far the single biggest driver of rising tuitions for public colleges has been declining state funding for higher education Nonsense. The single bigges

> but by far the single biggest driver of rising tuitions for public colleges has been declining state funding for higher education Nonsense. The single biggest factor in rising tuition is that student debt cannot be discharged. Which means there's lots more money chasing student debt than would be otherwise. Which means schools can charge more. These effects can also be seen in rising tradeschool tuitions and the rise of other for profit education like University of Phoenix.