This comment is worth repeating: College has become a huge growth industry. However, the industry has changed and mutated negatively, with far too little oversight of quality.
Consider the dismal teaching quality of colleges. Over 4,000 colleges and universities now enroll over 17 million students. But colleges appear to be primarily in the business of acquiring students, differing to a degree only in their approach to marketing.
Some do so as research centers. They may boast professors with science awards and Nobel Prizes. These are very appealing marketing devices. Such esteemed faculty also attract grants and endowments, as well as students.
But even that’s a façade and not an institution to attend. Nobelists teach few classes. ( See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)
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