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Thursday, September 13, 2012

The higher-ed bubble is bound to burst :: Jeff Jacoby

The higher-ed bubble is bound to burst :: Jeff Jacoby

GW is a private institution, but the price of a college education has been skyrocketing at public campuses too. All told, the average cost of an undergraduate education has more than doubled in real dollars since I entered college in the mid-1970s. Over the past 3½ decades, the consumer price index has climbed around 3.8 percent per year; over the same period, college tuition and fees have been soaring at an annual rate of 7.45 percent. But nothing soars forever.

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