National Health Service Corps = join after grad, get assigned some where (WVa, Mississippi, ME etc) for
2 yrs/pays off ur med ed.
College is a money makin venture (for all). Colleges make $ off room'n board (etc) not the $ for class (hi personnel costs there) so community colleges really just scrape by (different mandate anyway). The hi cost of schoolin came AFTER more was done to lower costs (all the financial institutions, corps R for money makin after all) as in the 'Bennett Revelation' :
https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Heller-Monograph.pdf
The availability of federal loans—particularly subsidized loans offering a below-market inter-
est rate and payment of interest as long as the student is enrolled in school—provides “cover” for colleges to raise their prices, because students can offset a price increase, or at least a portion of that increase, with federal loans.
This one sentence became perhaps the one thing for which Bennett is best known, and it is commonly referred to as the “Bennett Hypothesis.” (colleges & loaners)
If getting some contacts in college (volunteer, work study, work for credit, 'field placements', other students, etc) and one of the higher paying jobs @ graduation (C my above comment) it can add 100s of thous $ to life time income. Skip that, or skate while in means forgoing these possibilities. (students)
College is a business as profs make new products & services there (incubators or whatever they're called) using students & their product/research to spin-off these new endeavors. (professors). And the list goes onto the town surrounding (rent, restaurants, bars, etc), government (chancellors, etc). I like the Land Grant U.s as they have a mandate to give back to the local & can B less expensive to attend:
en.wikipedia.org
For the usual rural areas they're in - PILOT would be an additional help
en.wikipedia.org
Yet even w/all this I still claim the system is broken.