why is college so expensive?

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by shark

I'd like to see how much the professors and university administrators rake in every year in salaries...

Most of them don't make nearly as much as you seem to fear they do, with a full tenured professor at all but the fanciest schools topping out around $80K or so, with top administrators getting perhaps twice that on average. There are exceptions, on both sides of the curve.

In other words, your average educator earns in a year about what your average corporate scumbag steals in a week . . . or a good day.