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The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money [1] is a book written by libertarian economist Bryan Caplan and published in 2018 by Princeton University Press.
College Degree Returns by Average 2011 Annual Out-of-Pocket Costs, from B. Caplan's The Case Against Education First-year U.S. college degree returns for select majors, by type of student Study comparing college revenue per student by tuition and state funding in 2008 dollars [121] The view that higher education is a bubble is debated.
Today, the same might be said of recent headlines questioning the value of a four-year college degree. “Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College.” - New York Times (Sept. 5, 2023)
A 2022 Gallup poll found about a third of enrolled students pursuing a bachelor’s degree considered withdrawing for a semester or more. "When a high school student can graduate today and walk ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, college enrollment rates declined. When schools began to have in-person classes again, the number of high school graduates who applied to college continued to drop. ...
Cost of living increased roughly 3.25-fold during this time; medical costs inflated roughly 6-fold; but college tuition and fees inflation approached 10-fold. Another way to say this is that whereas medical costs inflated at twice the rate of cost-of-living, college tuition and fees inflated at four times the rate of cost-of-living inflation.
There has never been a time when the cost of college wasn’t rising. The Atlantic dug up a New York Times editorial from 1875 where the author griped that the cost of a single year of college ...
Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.