What Do We Get When We Pay for School?

It’s hard to know what exactly you’re paying for when you pay college tuition. Is it a

chance at a better career? Some time on a lush green campus learning from worldly

professors? The risk of six-figure debt that never seems to shrink? And if students are

paying a fraction of that price or nothing at all in other countries, how do we rationalize

the cost here in the United States? Is college in the United States and abroad still worth

the price tag? Ashley Ford speaks to Katia Maneff, a mom who is considering the cost

of higher education for her daughter both in the United States and the United Kingdom.

To answer Katia’s questions, Ashley turns to journalist Paul Tough and University

College London economics professor Gillian Wyness to get more information on the

tricky decisions we make when we think about how, why, and how much to pay for a

college education.

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