Here is why colleges is so expensive

Here’s why colleges are so expensive

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In Blog post 1, I talked about why colleges are so expensive. They were expensive because of main reasons like inflation, the need of college, and popularity. Because colleges know you need and want them, they want to make it more because they can. Also, if non-popular colleges raise their prices the more popular and expensive colleges will raise theirs to make it seem like they are better.  These things are the reason colleges are about 33,000 a semester.

Some new information, coming from Quora, gives even more reasons. Another reason that I did not mention the cost of textbooks. Textbooks are extremely expensive not only because of the price but the quantity. A textbook is about $150, but you have to multiply that cost with the amount of classes you have. Another reason is the teachers. They get paid a pretty good amount, which the college has to give so the colleges need more money so they can pay for them. College professors get about 25K per course. Another source says that one of the reasons colleges are so expensive is because the state usually doesn’t give much support to public colleges. Because the State gives more money to private, because they know they will be successful, public gets less support. I interviewed some college students. I asked them these questions. I got many different helpful responses. Here is an example of what one student responded with. These responses gave me many different types of views like, whether college is worth the price. Some said no unless you get a good job out of it. Some said yes, no matter what college is worth it. I personally think after all this research that college is worth the price but the price is a bit extreme. One of the questions I asked was, “What’s the worst thing about college?” I asked that because I was wondering if price was the worst thing about it. I am wondering if people really don’t care about the price, or if they got used to the fact that it is really expensive. These interviews gave me many insights on how college is different for different students in different colleges. It’s also interesting to see the ideas they have to make colleges cheaper. For my final blog post, which is to make a change to the problem,I was thinking of getting money to via donations or fundraiser, and to give it to college student that are having a problem paying.