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 ...

Many families have felt the pinch of rising college tuition costs over time. Those prices are a lot higher today compared with two decades ago. For instance, the average cost for tuition and fees ...

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 ...