Glenn Reynolds: The Ever Inflating Higher Education Bubble

A college education is becoming more and more expensive. Tuition is rising faster than inflation, and even faster than the cost of a home during the housing bubble. Even worse, students are incurring huge student loans to pay for a university degree. When will the bubble burst? Hear more as Glenn Reynolds brings you the details of the higher education bubble.

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[bobbytiger]

I continue to wonder as to why this subject is not more often addressed. College costs are out of control, tenured professors making $150+K annually + benefits, "teach" 1 to 2 classes per semester (with graduate-student help of course). Yet, few seem to care.

As an Arlington County, VA resident, (where our public school teachers make in excess of $70K per yr on average, (per school year), somebody needs to draw a line in the sand, and say "no mas". The cost is killing, & the education poor.

[Jd Henderson]

Medicine, science, teaching, and law.. If your not in these fields college is useless, go learn a actual skilled trade first.

[lacrosseguy556]

Yes, so you can learn the difference between "your" and "you're", and that "an" always comes before a word that begins with a vowel or vowel sound.

[madbowler6]

one thing I disagree with in this video (but it's a major point): Glenn says colleges will have to start cutting costs to get tuition rates down. I'm not so sure, bc that would presume that rising *costs* of educating college students are what is driving tuition inflation. that's definitely not the case. the cost of educating a student has remained largely unchanged. the fed govt inflating the tuition bubble with cheap loans is the driver of tuition prices.

[frogsoda]

WAIT You paid more than a quarter million dollars to become a Dr of Video Game Strategy?!?!HAHAHA they saw you coming a million miles away.

More proof that education doesn't always result in intelligence. Just don't ask the rest of us to pay it for you. That is YOUR DEBT. You make as many Latte's as you have to to pay it.

[frogsoda]

I would add engineering and architecture to that list but I agree 100%

[urbman29]

Agreed

[ArrogantAmerican333]

Totally. The liberals are right that greed is the problem with the Western world today, but not in the way they think. We Westerners have become too greedy in that we are labelling too many things as entitlements and necessities.

[gigawatts2k]

@iq7 @artvol11 I would agree, there is a lot of open positions. Plus with the BRAC making it's way from DC here, there are also a lot of open positions, simply because not everyone is going to leave the DC area.

[Siegetower]

Sounds like you've overeducated yourself but at the same time underqualified yourself for the real workforce. South Korean 25 year olds working in video game strategy positions in Seoul won't need to have had such a stifling amount of education. I'm sorry mate but did you research the level of employment in that field in your country, or at least local area, before engaging in such a path?

[Siegetower]

In Australia there are now so many graduates that some organisations only take people with Masters Degrees. A friend started at a government department through his special skills and he was the only non Masters holder. Some of the people starting on his intake had PhD's. And this is for a basic govt. office job in the 'graduate' stream where they're basically answering the phones and working on the Ministers' projects. We're overeducated, it's futile.

[roxtar10870]

Meh - There are graduating lawyers that can't find jobs, and I highly doubt that one needs a degree to teach anything worth learning.