Comment by sightbroke

I'm saying the opposite has been my experience.

There's plenty of ways for Universities to lower costs without hurting quality.

There are plenty of open resources nowadays. Many of the paid online only textbooks with inconsistent tooling and accessibility for starters could be eliminated.

Expensive corporate software contracts is another. Access to MS office is nice in theory but in practice many students rely on Google instead AND there are open alternatives that don't have unreliable authentication problems.