[SeekAndFind]

Also, the backlash after the credit boom has led to higher standards for getting some student loans, which could also be crimping applications.

[wayoverontheright]

What is behind the deceleration?

Let me see....the word "rich" is being used as an epithet, the words "evil" and "CEO" are now indelibly linked, "Wall Street" is a pejorative, employers and investors have become the declared enemy of our country's tax policy, and 99% of high school commencement speakers ridicule private sector players while exhorting graduates to "public service".

Is it any wonder kids don't want to join what they now perceive to be the "dark side"?

[Red Badger]

That will make current MBA’s more expensive. Supply and demand............

[Buckeye McFrog]

the Obamaites have already set up an academy to redirect their careers into “helping” occupations (as government bureaucrats)