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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 ...

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 ...