Your comment about knowing where your tuition dollars are going is not realistic. You are not buying a thing and you cannot think of education is consumer terms. It is a very complicated thing to finance a university. Infrastructure, research, land, salaries - these are the obvious items that get funded. But in reality there are so many elements that go into this venture that full transparency would be impossible. I'm a late 90's BU grad and I fully understand the hardship of affording a college education. I'll be paying mine off for a long time yet. Still, people need to stop acting as if they are "buying something" when they pay for school. Besides, you knew what costs were when you accepted admission -- as well as when you decided to apply.