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[–] Citizen 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Private colleges or public universities?

Private colleges are not corrupt; they wear their intentions on their sleeves. Many are in it for the money; others have different motives; but they are all quite open about their motivation.

Public universities were primarily intended to be research institutions for the betterment of mankind. Education was a byproduct of the need for tuition money to fund research. Somehow they lost their way, and those who are supposed to use money to lubricate the flow of research are instead using research to lubricate the flow of money.

I would say that they have been corrupted, but not in the traditional sense of bribery and graft. Instead, the very institutions have been subverted from a public institution for the greater good into a business whose main purpose is to make money.