There was time where actually the students from college passed out without any debt. But that was our grandparents generation where the WWII veterans were re joined in college to complete their education by the government expenses.
Coming to our parent’s generation the tuition fees collected from the college has increased due to rise in inflation and standard of life but will still payable and if taken aid from government as jobs were ample it was not hard to repay.
Coming to our generation with advancement in technologies and inflation and economic depressions the steady rate of the economy has hampered and tuition fees have increased rapidly resulting in the students who have a huge debt even before completing their college.