Tuition passes inflation
Term-bill increases have outpaced inflation in the last 30 years
Yale College’s 4.5 percent tuition increase, announced last week, is its lowest in five years. But following a tradition stretching over the large part of three decades, the price of attending college here has risen faster than the expenses faced by schools nationwide.
Annual term bills, including Yale’s, have been increasing at a pace faster than both consumer and higher education inflation on and off for at least 30 years. The reason, administrators and some outside experts said, is that the University’s costs rise faster than the average rate of even higher education inflation....
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