College Enrollment Facing Steep Declines

[bjl584]

America’s colleges are hurtling toward an enrollment cliff

Sorry, could copy/paste the article here, but it's a short read.
Basically, a combination of falling birth rates and skepticism over rising college costs and their payoff in the workforce are causing enrollment rates to sharply fall

[Fishindude77]

This is probably good news.
Hopefully the kids (and parents) have woken up and realized that the student loan thing is a crummy trap and that the majority of colleges are peddling a bunch of crummy degrees you can't make a decent living at.
Also think both kids and parents representing the majority of society have grown tired of the woke agenda which represents a very small percentage of society being pushed so hard on college campuses.

Plenty of opportunities out there to make a great living without the need for an expensive degree and there are also a lot of less traditional ways to get a good degree without burying yourself in debt.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

And yet there are ways to get a degree that isn't super expensive. Read MonkeyMama's post about what college cost for her son. And extremely high return on investment. If you don't live on campus the tuition is very affordable where I live as well. And if as a family you make under $150k then it is very affordable. And if you make say $200k+ seriously affording $15k tuition and living at home is $60k for 4 years. So why is there huge student loans? Because students take out way more than tuition. They use it to live on. The reality check is student loans aren't rampant because of tuition.

I know someone who became a dentist. He borrowed about $800k. um tuition was only $60k/year. So why? He borrowed living expenses for 4 years to support him and his wife who didn't work! So perhaps if she had worked during his 4 years and they only borrowed $60k/year that's $240k. Thats a huge difference between $800k and $240k. Just saying. Even if she had worked part-time to get medical or pay rent instead of borrowing 100% living expenses for 4 years. Seems a bit excessive to me.

So is it really universities fault? Or is that people use student loans for other purposes than student loans?