As expansion has taken place, it has been necessary to provide ever more competitive sorting mechanisms to control access to high-prestige occupations. The universities are also seen as meritocratic institutions that can be trusted to provide fair and impartial tests to measure accomplishment honestly and therefore, determine access. At private colleges, tuition is a higher percentage and replaces almost non-existent state government support and sponsored research. That's why UB has lower tuition than Medaille, which is tuition-driven. Sixty percent of the total belongs to fifty top-tier schools.
Higher education does return stakeholder value.
Their attention drifts after only 10 to 20 minutes. They are listening, asking or responding to questions, or taking notes only half of the time. Up to 15 percent of their time is spent fantasizing . Studies sometimes find rare high values where students retain 50 percent of the content a month or so after the final exam, but values of 20 percent or less are common. Numerous studies demonstrate widespread cheating among students on classroom tests, possibly involving 40 to 90 percent of all students.