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College costs have been on a mostly upward trend for the last two decades. In addition to rising tuition prices, paying for housing, food, transportation, textbooks and other school-related fees ...

This measure reflects the average college tuition and fees required of in-state students at public four-year institutions, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics. Room and board is ...

Others charged students low tuition, thanks to large state subsidies that covered much of the cost of operating a college. So how did colleges come to depend on tuition revenue to survive?

81 percent of foreign undergraduates completely fund their own tuition. The same is true for 61 percent of master’s students, regardless of where they are from. Levine, the college cost ...

The chart shows that, from 1980 through 2022, private and public four-year college tuition costs increased by factors of about 9.2 and 12.1, respectively. In the same time period, the minimum wage ...