So, you look at the European university operation. No NCAA sports. There’s fairly good odds that if you start out on day one...the vast majority of students (probably over seventy percent) will be there to wrap it up at the end of four to five years (yeah, shocker that some bachelor programs run five years in Germany). Support staff within univeristy programs? Yeah....but they basically get paid around 30k Euro a year and not the tidy $70,000 to $90,000 that you see at major universities in the states. New buildings appearing on campus every year? Well...no, they’ve got some buildings that easily date back to the 1800s.
Take the template which a typical German university would operate and force a US university to operate within the same perimeters (pay, staff, operations, sports). The US student would be paying a max of eight thousand dollars a year.
That assumes U. S. higher education is in place to actually educate young adults, instead of the reality that it is a jobs program for Marxists who can find employment nowhere else...