Corey Turner

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Planet Money · Can the Trump administration make college cheaper? · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

And his point is that the point of these new loan caps is basically to put downward tuition pressure on some of the most expensive schools out there, including, by the way, some pretty elite name brand schools. matched

One analysis from the Peer Center found that the two schools at the top of this list with the most affected borrowers are NYU and USC. matched

He's put together some fascinating scatter plots that show, say, like a master's in social work. matched

And all of the programs in the United States that offer a master's in social work. matched

And you can see he maps where the new loan limits are. matched

And the vast majority of programs fall within the limits. matched

But then there are some quite well-known and respected schools who, for one reason or another, are charging two or three times as much for the same degree that you could get at a public university next door. matched

So in the next couple of years, the Bannard hypothesis could maybe lower tuition. matched

Sometimes. matched

At some places. matched

The experts I talked to pretty much agreed on that. matched

Mm-hmm. matched

Robert Kelchin at the University of Tennessee, he told me he expects to see at most a small decrease in tuition. matched

And then Jeff Denning, who was one of the researchers on that Texas study, again, that is most often used by Republicans to justify this move, he told me... matched

It's possible we'll see price cuts?

It's not out of the realm of possibilities that prices would reduce.

And a handful of schools have already said, in response to this new program, they're going to lower their prices because they know students can't borrow as much. matched

There will be less federal aid available.

But the question is, how will the private market respond?

How will students respond?

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