OldShooter
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That's a completely different issue.... Going to the cheaper school, like most in life, can often end up with getting what you paid for.
My issue is virtually ALL of these schools have increased their costs wildly in excess of even health care inflation. Naïve student borrowers, enabled by the government, keep shoveling money in the feeding trough and the students end up screwed.
Just winging it here, but I might go back 20 years for each school's baseline tuition, fees, room & board. Then calculate a today's "should-cost" number by applying 20 years of CPI or even CPI + 1%. Each school would then be tasked to make progress (by some criteria) towards their should-cost number as a condition of students being able to borrow to attend. No progress, no student loan money. This would take a legion of bureaucrats and a deafening amount of weeping and wailing, but it would shine the schools' high beams on cost control and eventually reduce the burden on students.