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human
ELI5: Why does college cost so much in the U.S.A?

Being from the UK and worrying about loans scraping £10k and getting a shock when I realised there are people with well over a hundred grand's worth of debt for further education in the States. Why? What is actually being paid for that we don't get here?

Edit: Woah, this really blew up while I was sleeping.
gpt
Because student loans are very easy to get and impossible to get rid of (our bankrupcy laws don't forgive student loan debt) so colleges can keep  raising the price and 18 year olds don't know enough to care about debt.