I've been scratching my head on this for quite a while as well. It seems to me that the value of the degree is going down, yet the price continues to rise. The

I've been scratching my head on this for quite a while as well. It seems to me that the value of the degree is going down, yet the price continues to rise. The self-education model (and ignoring the complexities of managing that) is often written off as lacking in comparison to attending a college environment, which I completely understand, but yet institutions seem to be scaling back in ways that soon will seem to render themselves as more and more aged as self education becomes... viable? Changed, at he very least.