Free Times: USC and Higher Education - With Skyrocketing Tuition, Is Degree Worth the Debt?:
"It’s no secret that students, not state or federal government, are the ones paying the price for tough economic times, as across South Carolina and the rest of the country rising tuition rates are forcing more students to think twice about taking on a debt load that might take half their lives to repay.
In fact, a Zogby poll released Sept. 7 shows that one in four of the college graduates surveyed believed their degree wasn’t worth the price they paid for it.
All this comes following a decade in which tuition rates in South Carolina have far outpaced the rest of the nation, adding thousands of dollars more in debt for the state’s students to have to service following graduation."
"It’s no secret that students, not state or federal government, are the ones paying the price for tough economic times, as across South Carolina and the rest of the country rising tuition rates are forcing more students to think twice about taking on a debt load that might take half their lives to repay.
In fact, a Zogby poll released Sept. 7 shows that one in four of the college graduates surveyed believed their degree wasn’t worth the price they paid for it.
All this comes following a decade in which tuition rates in South Carolina have far outpaced the rest of the nation, adding thousands of dollars more in debt for the state’s students to have to service following graduation."