this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
39 points (93.3% liked)

World News

32076 readers
1195 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the pain isn't going to be universal. For profit universities aren't doing well already and I expect them to do worse over time. I expect a lot of non-profit private liberal arts universities to go bankrupt unless they turn into foreign student visa centers. There will probably be some consolidation of public universities, but nothing really bad.

I expect college to get a lot cheaper as the available student pool doesn't recover from the millennial echo boom.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I expect college to get a lot cheaper as the available student pool doesn't recover from the millennial echo boom.

“The market will self-correct,” I tell myself, despite all evidence to the contrary (the total lack of an incentive for monopoly capital to lower prices in a bourgeois dictatorship). “The market will self-correct. The market cannot fail us. Only we can fail the market.”