University professors, some of whom are barely literate themselves, many teaching useless, made-up subjects, get 6-figure salaries, gold plated benefits and push the work down to underpaid grad students - then they stir students into protesting the cost of education.
get the Govt completely put of the loan business.
Then things will change radically. Tuition will drop.
The cost of various majors will change. And I suspect many non viable “xxxx studies” will go away completely.
As loan companies will likely NOT get paid back, if a student can default on the loan. They will likely NOT pay for non viable degrees.
Those are valid factors. I would add the push to have everyone attend college and the tendency of public schools to dumb down their graduates so they arrive at college at the knowledge level which used to be required to graduate the sixth grade.