The answer turns out to be pretty unexpected: college students are taking way more courses than their degrees require. Here's how this mega-waste happens: More than one-third of all college students transfer between colleges during their studies. Why reject so many students' credits entirely? So having helpless transfer students re-take classes is real money-maker. And it forces students to spend more time, more money and more taxpayer debt on college than they need to.

Source: Forbes September 28, 2017 17:48 UTC