I'm always amazed that all these articles seem to miss the fact that the dept of education is the one who decides loan caps for federally backed student loans.

I'm always amazed that all these articles seem to miss the fact that the dept of education is the one who decides loan caps for federally backed student loans. Its easy to see that the increase in tuition is directly related to those increases when you're in, say, medical school. Its not so easy to see tuition increases when you're at a 4 year school with many disciplines to obfuscate the increases. The only question I have is why does the government believe that so many of these fields have graduates seeing 300% increases in salary? No number I've seen even remotely suggest the rate that they're approving things. So why are they doing it? That is the question journalists should be asking.