<p>Periwinkle wrote, “After a few Google searches, I found claims that Ivy League colleges charge about 1/2 the full cost of educating a student.”</p>
<p>Those schools are being misleading, as I wrote before and as explained in an article </p>
<p>[Colleges</a> Spend Far Less on Educating Students Than They Claim, Report Says - Administration - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“Colleges Spend Far Less on Educating Students Than They Claim, Report Says”>Colleges Spend Far Less on Educating Students Than They Claim, Report Says)
by Robin Wilson
The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 7, 2011</p>
<p>'The report’s authors used data from the U.S. Education Department’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or Ipeds, to conclude that more than half of students attend institutions that take in more per student in tuition payments than what it actually costs them to deliver an education.</p>
<p>The chief reason universities inflate the figures on what they spend to educate students, says the report, is that institutions include all of their spending—whether it is directly related to instruction or not—when calculating what it costs them to provide an education. </p>
<p>The original report is</p>
<p>[Who</a> Subsidizes Whom?:](<a href=“CollegeLifeHelper.com”>CollegeLifeHelper.com)
An Analysis of Educational Costs and Revenues
By Andrew Gillen, Matthew Denhart and Jonathan Robe
April 2011</p>