$9,000 is community college territory.
Most public universities are about $12k. And private schools run about $50k.
One of my colleagues that went to MIT said “We should all pay more taxes. In fact, twice what we pay now.”
I said “Why don’t you and your liberal friends volunteer to pay double taxes. Oh wait, you can already do that! Its called charitable donations! Do you and Nancy Pelosi give away that much money?”
Again, its all about power.
There are some pretty decent universitites in the UNC system around $9k in-state for tuition, room and board.