<p>@Demeron2
Like you said yourself, rising costs of attendance are driving us to seek the best return on investment. We do not want to, say, waste $240k on a sociology degree from fancy U because that’s just going to net us a really bad ROI. The <$40k STEM degree from the local school or the $100k STEM degree from state flagship are likely better investments than the fancy U deal.</p>
<p>Obviously a lot of these reports hardly take financial aid into account… in some cases, the fancy U degree is even cheaper than the state flagship degree</p>