It will be interesting to see how this plays out, clearly Higher Ed. is not going anywhere anytime soon. But I did do an off the cuff calculation recently and figured that if I had a kid today, in 18 years when he or she is ready for college, if they wanted to goto the school I went to, four years would cost $300,000. With that amount of money, you're better off funding your own trading account, or starting your own business... no one in there right mind would goto college for that amount of money... (unless $$$ were worthless of course)