Why is this surprising? College tuition rates are rising so fast that a university would have to squander its resources to be in the red.<p>Source: <a href="http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Articles/Education_Inflation.asp" rel="nofollow">http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Articles/Educat...</a><p>According to the above, since 1985, while average expenses have risen by about 115%, college tuition has risen by almost 500%. Pretty soon college costs will pass a critical threshold -- the cost of a degree simply won't pay for itself in the world of jobs.<p>But it gets worse -- it turns out many college students aren't learning anything:<p>Source: <a href="http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/985FB16E-4023-E011-ADEF-001CC477EC84/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/985FB16E-4023-E011-ADE...</a><p>Quote: "According to their analysis of more than 2,300 undergraduates at twenty-four institutions, 45 percent of these students demonstrate no significant improvement in a range of skills—including critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing—during their first two years of college."<p>For those students, college is a very expensive, pointless activity.