Why does it cost more to take classes in a university or private colleges than community colleges?
Not if you’re from California, it doesn’t. Unless things have changed recently, tuition at California state universities is free for California natives. But overall, the reason is that universities and private colleges have more tenured faculty, and they spend more money on research and stuff. A lot of kids who go to universities, especially big ones, think the school takes them seriously – it doesn’t, for most of them they’re just there to pay for an overpriced training. Their tuition is a huge fund that allows the University to pay for expensive people to increase their reputation, and to build expensive buildings, expensive labs, and other fancy stuff so they can get rich fat research grants, and big donations from rich alumni. A community college isn’t in the game to get a government contract to build an AI to drive military vehicles, the way Stanford is. So they don’t need money to build labs and hire wizbang scientists to run the labs. They just need qualified instructors to teac
