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500. What Exactly Is College For?

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The Peculiarities of the US College System

The US higher education system has astronomical levels of tuition/nEuropean public universities are often free or have price controls/nThe US relies on chaos and market forces to configure its systems/nEuropean countries tend to take deliberate and rational control of higher education/nEarliest European universities were typically run by the church and later taken over by governments

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