500. What Exactly Is College For?
500. What Exactly Is College For?  
Podcast: Freakonomics Radio
Published On: Thu Apr 21 2022
Description: 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 — and wrong. (Part 1 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)