From Inside Higher Ed: Despite a drop in net tuition prices over the past several years, a new survey shows that the majority of Americans believe four-year colleges aren’t committed to affordability. ...Gallup and the Lumina Foundation published the results of a June web survey of 2,043 adults that asked about their views on college value and affordability. Although other recent data shows falling confidence in higher education over the past decade, nearly three-quarters of parents surveyed said they would prefer for their child to pursue some type of postsecondary pathway immediately after high school. And 38 percent of those parents want their kids to attend a four-year university, compared to 19 percent who want their kids to enroll in a community college and 17 percent who want them to enroll in a job-training or certification program. And 53 percent of respondents also said four-year colleges were “excellent” or “good” for advancing new knowledge and finding new discoveries, compared to 46 percent who said the same about community colleges...
At the same time, survey respondents gave four-year colleges the lowest marks on affordability, with 63 percent saying that those institutions are doing a “poor job” of making college affordable; just 12 percent said they were doing a good or excellent job. And among the 26 percent of parents who didn’t want their child to enroll in a four-year college, the most cited reason was that they believe it’s too expensive...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2026/07/22/survey-majority-americans-say-college-not-affordable.
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