Private college tuition discounting continues to increase

The ramifications of this trend for the future of private higher education are grim.  The U.S. is, at present, the only nation that enrolls a substantial portion of college-age students in institutions with 10:1 student-faculty ratios.   It's hard to see how this will survive fifty years hence, outside the ranks of the super rich institutions that can effectively subsidize the students they want to enroll.