At Long Last, Signs That College Tuition Might Come Down
The costs of higher education are softening in some places, but experts aren't too excited yet.
It's a fall tradition: Students don college sweatshirts and their parents, meanwhile, sweat the tuition bills.
One flash-in-the-pan movie this summer even featured a couple, played by Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler, who start a casino to cope with their kids' college costs.
Annual tuition hikes have been pretty much a given in higher ed, but recently, there are signs that the decades-long rise in college costs is nearing a peak.
- In a marked change from previous years, at college and graduate schools rose in line with inflation over the last 12 months. Doesn't
