Sixty-three percent of Americans say four-year colleges are doing a “poor job” of making education affordable.
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Despite a drop in net tuition prices over the past several years, a new survey shows that the majority of Americans believe four-year colleges aren’t committed to affordability.
On Wednesday, Gallup and the Lumina Foundation published the results of a June web survey of 2,043 adults that asked about their views on college value and affordability. Although other recent data shows falling confidence in higher education over the past decade, nearly three-quarters of parents surveyed said they would prefer for their child to pursue some type of postsecondary pathway immediately after high school.
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