College Tuition Costs Will Likely Surge In Coming Years: Goldman Sachs

College tuition, which has been rising at a breakneck pace since 1990, is starting to moderate to a pace in line with inflation. Causation behind the leveling of costs is due to several factors, a Goldman Sachs report notes, pointing to supply and demand factors as well as household income growth numbers. But don't get accustomed to a normalization in prices because it won't last long, analysts say.

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College costs are finally dropping

From 1990 to 2016, US advanced education costs have risen nearly double that of inflation. With US student debt now near $1.4 trillion, such price increases have come in the face of college enrollment decreasing over the last...