Comment by sytelus

US should create 100 more universities. Each university campus lights up the economy of otherwise sleepy written off towns. The state operated universities can help lower the tuition and in turn reduce the student debt burden - one of the biggest issue. It creates more faculty positions for PhDs coming out. It attracts more international students bringing in money and talent. It lowers stress on outrageously competitive higher education space. It creates more research departments and opportunities. A creation of typical university campus is merely $1B. For $100B total, this generates so many benefits that it shouldn’t be even question. A lot of progress in US happened because of establishment of new universities. At some point we didn’t kept pace with growing demands and now education as well as research has become scars, expensive things available Only to elite.