Where Is Your Tuition Bill Going?
As of this upcoming school year (2018), I will be headed into my senior year of college. I graduated high school in 2014 with college credits already under my belt, putting me ahead of students who hadn't taken AP or Post Secondary classes. You would think by 2018 I would have graduating with a bachelor's degree; however, that is not the case. Believe me, it is not that I don't want to be moving forward or that I have been held back for educational reasons. No, the #1 and only reason I have for not graduating college is that it costs SO much money. I'm sure many of you have parents have graduated college with little to no debt, while working part time jobs at minimum wage and having very little family financial support. For us "millennials," attending college full time, working full time, and taking out exuberant amounts in loans is the norm. According to FinAid.com, inflation for tuition has exceeded 8 percent, which is higher than it has been in the past 30 years. I'm not here to tell you tuition has risen and the numbers behind it, but to ask schools WHY tuition has risen. It is understood that as wages increase, the price of living also increases, but it does not explain the thousand dollar annual leaps schools are making in their housing and tuition costs; and I am here to tell you why.