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Delta Project Data
The Delta Project has organized data on operating spending and revenues into aggregate measures of costs per student and costs per degree/certificate produced, organized into Carnegie classifications separating public and private nonprofit institutions.
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Less than 10 percent strongly feel students get their money’s worth
SURVEY – Is college worth the cost?
By Dave Newbart
Chicago Sun Times
Fewer than one in 10 Illinois residents feels strongly that college is worth the cost, a new survey has found, leading some educators to worry that more families might begin foregoing college if costs continue to rise.
A survey out Tuesday found strong support from just 7.8 percent of 1,150 people who were asked if "college students today are getting their money's worth."
Massachusetts Should Tax Harvard
By James D. Miller
May 19, 2008
Inside Higher Ed
Some Massachusetts legislators want to tax rich colleges. The idea is part of a broader push to question whether some colleges with hefty endowments are inappropriately hoarding wealth while continuing to raise their tuitions sharply. Nine schools in the state are deemed wealthy enough to be subject to the tax, a proposed 2.5 percent on all assets over $1 billion.
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