Attention Economy


Friday, November 8, 2019

Prestige and College Tuition Rates

Six-Figure Price Tags Are Coming to Colleges
““The [colleges] that are expensive are the ones that students want to apply to,” explains the Seton Hall University professor Robert Kelchen, who studies higher-education finance. “Being expensive is seen as being good—if one [elite] college is 20 percent cheaper than another [elite] college, students are going to wonder what’s wrong with it.” "