{"id":4952,"date":"2026-09-06T10:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/college-costs-top-100000-as-value-questions-grow\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:03:21","slug":"college-costs-top-100000-as-value-questions-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/college-costs-top-100000-as-value-questions-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"College Costs Top $100,000 as Value Questions Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/egnG6SuTPY8\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018SUPER WOKE\u2019: Harvard relies on the \u2018MEMORY OF A REPUTATION,\u2019 journalist says\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/egnG6SuTPY8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 6, 2026 (STL.News) A remarkable threshold has been crossed in American higher education: 15 colleges and universities now carry published annual costs exceeding $100,000, according to recent reporting based on Princeton Review data. Only two institutions were above that level a year ago. The milestone is likely to intensify a much larger debate that has been building across the United States: If families are being presented with college price tags approaching or exceeding $100,000 a year, what exactly are students receiving for the money? That question goes beyond tuition. The six-figure figures represent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/college-costs-top-100000-as-value-questions-grow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 6, 2026 (STL.News) A remarkable threshold has been crossed in American higher education: 15 colleges and universities now carry published annual costs exceeding $100,000, according to recent reporting based on Princeton Review data. Only two&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}