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Who pays the utility bills? Professor and administrative salaries? Is anyone allowed in just due to having a diploma? What keeps rampant cronyism and end of yea
by wangchungtonite 8y ago
Who pays the utility bills? Professor and administrative salaries? Is anyone allowed in just due to having a diploma? What keeps rampant cronyism and end of year cost splurges to keep high budget levels for the next year? Who sets the budget? How does enforcement work, government employees doing enforcing?
In short how do you pay for it given the already spiraling out of control costs of higher education?
- ndnxhs 8y agoAll fairly simple issues that many countries have solved.
- dodobirdlord 8y agoI suppose so, but it's worth noting that no other nation's tertiary education system holds a candle to the United States.
- cf498 8y agoBecause of a few flagship institutions who are valued quite a lot in comparison to the average institution.
- titanomachy 8y agoSwitzerland and England both have schools in the top 10.
- em500 8y agoThose schools don't admit everyone, and certainly not everyone for free.
- lozenge 8y agoI can't speak for Switzerland but all universities in England charge the same for UK students with nothing upfront. Sure they don't have space for everybody who meets the minimum but that's inevitable. There are no legacy admissions, athletic admissions, positive discrimination etc. Everybody goes through the same process.
- titanomachy 8y agoThat's fine, I was just disputing that "no one holds a candle to the US education system".
- ndnxhs 8y agoI would rather everyone have access to great education rather than the top 1% have access to outstanding education.
- roberto 8y agoOf the top 5 universities in dentistry, oral surgery and medicine in the world, 3 are in Brazil and are completely free: https://cwur.org/2017/subjects.php#Dentistry,%20Oral%20Surgery%20&%20Medicine https://cwur.org/2017/subjects.php#Dentistry,%20Oral%20Surge...
- jogjayr 8y agoAre you saying charging high tuition is responsible for making US universities better? Correlation alone does not equal causation. Is there any evidence for this statement?
- kome 8y agoWhy for Americans trivial problems seems more tricky than climbing the Himalaya? If Spain, Italy, Germany and Sweden did it; US can do it too.
- pnw_hazor 8y agoSome problems are easier to solve if you have a declining population and restrictive/merit based immigration policies. Also, weeding out people from attending university at 14 years old helps too.