(04-10-2024, 06:46 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: If the government stops guaranteeing student loans, I believe that will force a lot of universities to deal with the spiraling cost of education at their institution.

There are routes a student can take if they can't get a student loan.  UNF, which is a very fine school, charges $175 per credit hour.  Harvard charges almost 10 times that much.  But I'd bet you'd get about the same education at UNF that you would get at Harvard.

(04-10-2024, 07:17 AM)mikesez Wrote: I should add, there are many countries where bachelor's degrees are basically free. But these countries have stricter admissions requirements.  You have to have good test scores, and you have to pick your program and stick with it before they let you start classes.  They may tell you, when they get your application, that they'll let you major in nursing but not medicine, or math but not engineering.  And if you fail out you probably won't get a second chance.  When a highly educated, europe-idolizing progressive like Bernie says he wants free college, this is probably what he's envisioning.  The free part might sound nice.  The strict part, where kids who had problems growing up will never even get a chance to try, goes completely against what public college in the US is supposed to be about.