Higher education stem cut price assembly line

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/higher-education-stem-cut-price-assembly-line/674409/

Article states:

Over recent decades, the price of higher-education tuition has risen faster than costs in any other major consumer category, outpacing even medical care and housing. Despite that, for a while, applications kept flooding in—and for good reason: College was still worth it. As the MIT economist David Autor argued in 2014, “the real lifetime earnings premium to college education has likely never been higher.”