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human
ELI5: Why are community colleges able to provide classes for such a low cost while university tuition is sky-high?

From my experience, I've received *better* education sometimes at community college than I have at university. The CC seems to be doing well in terms of funding and keeping faculty/staff/students happy, and I loved being able to pay for school out of pocket.

Transferring to a university was a real wake up call. It was well over $1,000 per class. At CC I could take four or five classes sometimes for less than a grand. What is so different that makes the costs of the two so polarized?
gpt
I think it has to do with the efficency between community colleges and state universities. Since community colleges don't provide some of the luxuries that a university offers such as research, luxury spas, study abroad programs, these institutions can focus more on instructing students at competitive rates. In addition, community colleges do not compete as agressively as universities when it comes to faculty.

Also, universities are known for having more higher education administrators, which adds to the cost of a university education.