Why Is College in America So Expensive?

The outrageous price of a U.S. degree is unique in the world

Amanda Ripley
The Atlantic
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12 min readSep 11, 2018

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Photo: Alicia Tatone

Before the automobile, before the Statue of Liberty, before the vast majority of contemporary colleges existed, the rising cost of higher education was shocking the American conscience: “Gentlemen have to pay for their sons in one year more than they spent themselves in the whole four years of…

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Amanda Ripley
The Atlantic

Journalist & NY Times bestselling author. Most recent book: HIGH CONFLICT: Why We Get Trapped & How We Get Out (Prev: SMARTEST KIDS IN THE WORLD & UNTHINKABLE)