Higher Education: The Next Asset Bubble?

By Robert Ross
04/19/2011
Academics are raising concerns over parallels between events leading up to the housing crisis and the current state of the higher education system. Concerns are over the costs of a college education rising as a result of lax lending standards and artificially low interest rates for government subsidized loans.

TAGS: Arum and Roska, Center for College Affordability and Productivity, Dan D'Amico, Housing Crisis, Michael Poliakoff, Peter Thiel, Richard Vedder, Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, Student Loans