Colleges have been notorious for keeping information from the public. In many schools is can be very hard to find out where they are spending your tuition money:
“Colleges could make it surprisingly easy to display exactly the breakdown of costs your tuition goes towards, but they tend to hide it in a labyrinthine collection of PowerPoint slides and spreadsheets, all without actually telling you what portion of your money is going to instruction and faculty or sports and entertainment.” (Web)
This holds true for many schools. It takes a little digging to find out just what the schools are doing with this money. Colleges now more than ever in the history of higher education have to compete to attract new students. A large portion of tuition money goes to making bigger and better athletic facilities,
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For example: If a new college opens its doors to students, and there is a college that offers mostly the same majors and classes. They will start the go into competition to attract students. For students that are unsure about the path they want to take in college, which is the majority of new students. A new cafeteria or bigger dorm can be the deciding factor, even if that mean paying 30 dollars more a mouth when it is time to pay back the huge debt that students will likely have. Schools have also had to hire more staff to maintain their new and improved facilities. In the average state school there is on average about one staff member for every ten students. In a private school it is more around three staff members’ forever one student. A professor’s pay in on average one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. An adjunct professor is payed far less. However educational staff’s salaries have risen with inflation. Colleges have had to raise their tuition so dramatically because of the competition they face. The solution can be fairly simple perspective students should focus more on the education value of the school and colleges should not be