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I'm not so sure college has gone up in price, all things considered. The sticker price is much higher, but people aren't usually paying sticker price. Discount

• coolgeek 6y ago
  Just so we're clear, here, you've already gone from: > I can see that college has gotten cheaper to > I'm not so sure college has gone up in price You seem to be good at finding system hacks for your own, and/or proximal cases. But you continue to generalize your own experience(s) in a way that almost certainly doesn't broadly apply. Here is Google's first link for "student loan total debt history": https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt-by-year https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt-by-year Some stats from that: - Student loan debt at graduation has increased 76% since the Class of 2000, a growth rate that outpaces the rate of inflation by 41% - After adjusting for inflation, the average student loan debt at graduation has increased 326% since 1970 - Since 2003, the national total student loan debt balance has grown by 602.5% Of course, tuition prices and student loan stats are different things. But the loan stats make it hard to argue that there is much discounting - in general - of tuition prices