My wife and I were cleaning out some boxes in the basement today and came across the Xavier catalog from 1978-1979. Full time tuition for a semester was $1,200. Room was $350 for Brockman and $365 for everywhere else. Board was $415 or $440 depending on the meal plan. At the high end, that’s $2,005 for a semester. Factoring in inflation from this website, https://www.usinflationcalculator.com, that’s $9,352 in today’s dollars.

Tuition today is $23,948. Room is $3,760 for Kuhlman. Board is $3,350. That’s a total of $31,058. I’m sure other universities have similar numbers. Can any of them really justify the increase? This is a bubble that has to burst.


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