I’ve been surprised at the lack of good quantitative reporting on college costs over time. For state schools, yes, state funding has been cut, but I get the fe

I’ve been surprised at the lack of good quantitative reporting on college costs over time. For state schools, yes, state funding has been cut, but I get the feeling that expenses have been skyrocketing. When I went to college in the late 90’s, my dorm was from 1930. The building boom in dorms was only surpassed by the expansion of residence life administrators. These new buildings were quite opulent for college kids, attempting to lure out of state students paying higher tuition. While these out of state student bodies grew, the cost for in-state students exceeded inflation, even while being subsidized by out of state students. A simple analysis of dorm costs over time, broken down by administrator overhead would shed a substantial light on the problem. Unlike tuition, dorms likely weren’t subsidized by tax payers and were designed to be cost neutral. I wouldn’t even be surprised if now, dorm costs exceed what they’re charging students, and constrained to raise prices by the external housing market, the excess administrators are funded by the general fund. All the data exists and at public schools, is likely accessible by a reporter to validate these assumptions. What I hear in the media is just simple politics - the left wants more funding for gender studies programs, and the right has cut the state funding of schools. As the community college prices haven’t increased anything like the university prices, while the teaching staff is paid similarly... I have to wonder what’s going on with University expenses.