Even the fact that higher education costs money at all is enough to prove that universities and colleges exist to make money, thereby encouraging such scandals as these. Right now I am living in Denmark, a country where the government pays students to go to university rather than charging them. Compare this to the UK, where I am from, where university fees are about £9,000 per year. I don’t have a lot of knowledge about the United States university fees but I am aware they are at least as high as the UK. After this scandal, we need to rethink the entire higher education system and how high fees like this prioritise the wealthy to an extreme degree. (An obvious point to make I am aware but sometimes the obvious points are the most overlooked.)