Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education

by Charles J. Sykes

Book Overview

The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978--four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college graduates under twenty-five years old are unemployed or underemployed. And professors--remember them?--rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities, instead...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250071593
• ISBN13: 9781250071590
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"