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How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:18 am
by bahari2010
Average private law school tuition is close to $39,000 (and in CA at least the public law school's exceed that due to the state budget being balanced on the backs of students.)
How much higher can tuition go without the market imploding (i.e. school's cannot fill their classes due to the cost)?
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:21 am
by Yeshia90
NYC schools to $190K.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:47 am
by luthersloan
As long as the federal government provides loans for the full tuition costs, the sky is the limit. It would only stop when the debt burden is so high as to scare off students, something I am not sure is even possible.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:07 am
by top30man
Yeshia90 wrote:NYC schools to $190K.
Love the atl reference. "well, it's about time"
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:02 am
by flcath
luthersloan wrote:As long as the federal government provides loans for the full tuition costs, the sky is the limit. It would only stop when the debt burden is so high as to scare off students, something I am not sure is even possible.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 1:26 pm
by FratLaw
luthersloan wrote:As long as the federal government provides loans for the full tuition costs, the sky is the limit. It would only stop when the debt burden is so high as to scare off students, something I am not sure is even possible.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 1:32 pm
by Shooter
luthersloan wrote:As long as the federal government provides loans for the full tuition costs, the sky is the limit. It would only stop when the debt burden is so high as to scare off students, something I am not sure is even possible.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:01 pm
by BiglawOrBust
luthersloan wrote:As long as the federal government provides loans for the full tuition costs, the sky is the limit. It would only stop when the debt burden is so high as to scare off students, something I am not sure is even possible.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:21 pm
by cinephile
I predict that schools will top out at 100k a year, probably within the next ten years.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:26 pm
by flcath
cinephile wrote:I predict that schools will top out at 100k a year, probably within the next ten years.
If the federal gov't agrees to cover that then they should be shot.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 9:30 pm
by cinephile
Yeah, hopefully it doesn't happen. But I see my undergrad's already at 50k a year and it seems like tuition goes up 3k every year. Seems like if it continues like this, and you add in COL, it'll be up to 100k before we know it.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:18 am
by SchopenhauerFTW
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 8:38 am
by Experimental Section
Wait, wait, wait... Is someone implying that the federal government getting involved in the student loan process is actually increasing tuition and adversely affecting students?? That's crazy talk.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 8:49 am
by Blessedassurance
luthersloan wrote:As long as the federal government provides loans for the full tuition costs, the sky is the limit
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:56 am
by sunynp
Experimental Section wrote:Wait, wait, wait... Is someone implying that the federal government getting involved in the student loan process is actually increasing tuition and adversely affecting students?? That's crazy talk.
Not sure if serious.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:03 am
by bartleby
the online sarcasm detector is weak in this one
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:41 pm
by bahari2010
If the fed gov. gets out of the loan business as it's currently structured, how should higher ed financing be re-structured?
Law school's won't do it themselves, my law school's tuition has gone up 33% beyond the rate of inflation in the last 10 years, and 55% beyond the rate of inflation in the last 25 years.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:15 pm
by Tom Joad
Experimental Section wrote:Wait, wait, wait... Is someone implying that the federal government getting involved in the student loan process is actually increasing tuition and adversely affecting students?? That's crazy talk.
Re: How high will tuition go?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:32 am
by joebruin2.0
I'd love for the fed government to nix the federal loan/guarantee business. You'd see about 50% of law schools dry up and die (maybe more), and the remaining schools drop tuition because not many people (who want to go to law school) can get 150K credit on their good name.
Burn baby burn
