The Cost of College Is So Out of Whack

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The cost of college is so out of whack that…

It would actually be cheaper to hire a personal tutor for every hour you’d spend in a college lecture.

Seriously, the math works out:

Each semester you have, say…

5 classes, each with 3 hours of lecture per week?

So, 15h/week? For ~16 weeks?

240h total per semester?

480h per year?

You could hire a $50/hr tutor for all that time, and it would cost $25k.

So the sticker price of college tuition at a name-brand private university is $60k for…

What reason, exactly?

Really drives the point home that skill acquisition is not the primary value proposition.

Further reading: The cost of college is so out of whack that it would actually be cheaper to hire a personal tutor for every hour you’d spend in a college lecture. .

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