The solution to that is rebuilding the state and federal funding for higher education with added regulations on where and how that money can be spent (perhaps e

The solution to that is rebuilding the state and federal funding for higher education with added regulations on where and how that money can be spent (perhaps even putting tuition caps in play). The reason universities are so expensive is there is no limit on how much they can charge for tuition and no requirements on how much they pay their professors. It allows them to dump a huge portion of their funds into the marketing and athletic departments. I know of a few religious universities who's mission is mainly to educate (so their well educated members can pay back more money to the church). While they do subsidize the educational costs, it isn't by as much as you'd think and it does result in some very cheap education. There's no reason the government couldn't do exactly the same thing. It did right up until reagan.