Here’s a piece from the East Coast, but the underlying theme can just as easily be applied to the pacific side of things.
Thanks to the struggling economy (when did you ever think you’d here THAT phrase?) public universities and colleges are seeing a jump in interest from prospective students. With prices for gas, food and clothing already headed upward and now the stock market downturn, students originally considering a four-year matriculation on a private campus, are expanding the search to less expensive (yet equally educative) public schools.
