The Cal State college system is just starting to offer online degrees. At $500 to $700 PER UNIT. That's going to be $1,800 for a single history class for example, and doesn't including course materials and other mandatory fees. I expect another accredited college to offer units at a fraction of this amount, and only suckers will attend the government school. In fact having a government school degree will signal the person is not knowledgeable about the world around them, and thus are not desirable as employees.
The last of the college applications have been rewritten, tweaked and polished, and at last entrusted to the tender mercies of the U.S. Mail or the Internet. Fretting over deadlines morphs into waiting, and yearning, wishing and praying for coveted letters of acceptance. This is the annual crisis in thousands of homes with ambitious high school seniors -- the high school seniors and their parents who still believe that college is the route to the American Dream.
But wait. While they play the conventional game of aspiration, certain scholars and economists, and hundreds of thousands of "concerned citizens" have initiated a...
I went to Cal State, Long Beach from 1974 and graduated in 1978. The fees were $95 for 12 units, and, as recall, a minimal amount ($2-$5) for additional units. UC schools were significantly more expensive, but not bad by today's standards.
Nowadays, I guess they need more money to pay for all the illegal immigrant's kids to follow their DREAM!