Why Does College Cost So Much?

by David H. Feldman and Robert B. Archibald

Book Overview

Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States. The trajectory of college...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199744505
• ISBN13: 9780199744503
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"