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In 1978 college cost an average of merely $700 per year. In 2018, college can easily cost a student $30,000 for a single year, not including the price of textbooks. Taking inflation into consideration, the cost to attend a public 4-year university has skyrocketed in the past 40 years, forcing the majority of students to apply for loans and scholarships. [...]