College Tuition Cost Analysis

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Future college students start to think about attending college around Junior and Senior year. Around that time the question that is always proposed is how much is college going to actually cost? The answer to this is too much. The amount of debt and the cost of tuition has been increasing drastically over the past couple of years. The cause of this is the recession and the costly budget cuts that state governments have imposed upon the the education system. Tuition has being increasing drastically over the past couple of years and even with tuition aid help the amount of money it cost to have that help, is the about the same cost without it. With this fact of tuition cost rising this affects, "a larger portion of a family’s paycheck today than a decade ago." (Selingo,p.9), with students families or a student not being able to pay for their education affects their chances of attending college or a university. Now an "average level of tuition and fees at a four-year public college rose by 87 percent"(Schoen,p.63), having this much rise of tuition fees as well often discourage a student from going to college. Seeing all these facts show that as time…show more content…
When the recession hit cost for things within the education system went up and along with it students increasing levels of debt. "Hard pressed by the recession, many American families saw their ability to cover portions of their children’s tuition drastically fall over recent years." (Understanding the Rising Costs of Higher Education,p.9) with students parents now not being able to cover the first year(s) of their education set students back, seeing as now they had to pay for their own education alone. The recession not only increase the amount of tuition a student has but as well as the debt a student carries throughout his or her academic

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