500. What Exactly Is College For?

Published: April 21, 2022, 3 a.m.

b'We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firms, trying to differentiate their products to win market share and prestige points. In the first episode of a special series, we ask what our chaotic system gets right \\u2014 and wrong. (Part 1 of \\u201cFreakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.\\u201d)'