I agree with you on this. Tutoring center or academic support groups are the most helpful tools that students should use with their challenging subjects. Also, better studying schedule that does not involve partying is much better and less stressful. Yet, it is very hard to do.

The electronic administrative capacity built by online schools could be integrated with current traditional schools to create a better resource at a lower cost. The number one driver of increased college costs has been administrative salaries, not teacher salaries. Administrative salaries are the cost of facilitating a University, but they do not improve the quality of the learning experience or the cost efficiency.
There has to be a way that online schools could help higher education by cutting costs, increasing educational accessibility, and teaching the right students the right skills to be productive instead of defaulting on student loans.

Thanks Edquest for this awesome comment.

Dont ever buy books for each class your taking. It is a huge waste of money.

However, they do not price their degree programs in that way. If you have a choice: a publicly-supported two-year or four-year college that grants the same degree, with more frills, but a lower tuition, you should take it. This is true for any student who wants to attend a fairly non-competitive school; there are plenty of public options that are not selective.

If for-profits want to maintain their price point, they need to prove that they offer tangible advantages: employer connections, highly personalized instruction, a vast alumni network, and scholarships that convey some form of prestige that students would be willing to pay a premium. These are the reasons students borrow large sums of money to attend, for example, Harvard or Wharton, over a state university business school.

Otherwise, why don’t the for-profits go to fiscally strapped state governments and ask: why don’t turn over administration of your least selective colleges to us? We’ll cut the fat and make money while charging your students less. That, along with employer-subsidized education, might make for a win-win for government and for-profit education.