April 17, 2011

Higher Education: The latest bubble?

"... higher education fills all the criteria for a bubble: tuition costs are too high, debt loads are too onerous, and there is mounting evidence that the rewards are over-rated. Add to this the fact that politicians are doing everything they can to expand the supply of higher education (reasoning that the "jobs of the future" require college degrees), much as they did everything that they could to expand the supply of "affordable" housing, and it is hard to see how we can escape disaster."




After 4 years of going from one grad school to the other, I read this article with a certain degree of nervousness. Take a look: GO TO ARTICLE HERE

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