TIL that the average university student in 1979 only had to work 182 hours per year (a part-time summer job) to pay for tuition, whereas the average 2013 student had to work 991 hours (a full-time job for half the year)

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/03/29/its-impossible-to-work-your-way-through-college-nowadays-revisited-with-national-data/



Submitted March 24, 2015 at 01:03AM by DaneelR http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/301oal/til_that_the_average_university_student_in_1979/