Because of the elite universities' investment in the current system, change is unlikely to come from within.
It was all the rage at the elite universities - Harvard in particular.
Stories about this problem generally focus on the elite universities, where total costs have exceeded $30,000 a year.
Even for achievers at an elite university, that's not a bad lesson to take out of college.
To make matters worse, most of America's elite universities have fled the field.
Such students, they found, were more likely to succeed at an elite university than at a community college.
His life story might have been one of an estimable scholar at an elite university.
If he has a weakness, they add, it is for economists at elite universities.
It is one of the elite universities in the country and region.
Again, Harvard and other elite universities founded by religious communities were the models.
This is clearly a good time for most elite universities.
These universities are commonly referred to by the media as "elite universities".
His admission demonstrates how even elite universities navigate the gray areas of recruiting to find talent.
Under his leadership Michigan gained prominence as an elite public university.
Other locales have elite universities on a par with Stanford and Berkeley.
Many elite universities also experienced increases in applications this year, but few if any have been as large as Cornell's.
Students who have graduated from Central have gone on to matriculate into some of the world's most elite universities.
The high tuition fees charged by these elite universities give them a major incentive against accepting transfer credit from free classes.
Mass education is the great public responsibility," he said, "much more important for a country than elite universities.
Maybe elite universities will require former students to complete continuing education credits simply to retain their alumni status.