re: Ivy League Strikes Again - Colorado Supreme Court

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Lots of govt regulation is blamed. U.S. colleges have more autonomy.

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I don't have an answer for why to be honest - people have come up with lots of reasons over the years.

But the private model works in the US because US graduates are incredibly loyal to their schools.

US private schools tend to have really wealthy alumni who practically bankroll university operations instead of being beholden to government. Elite schools tend to be pretty loyal to their alumni in the US as well - it's why they're pretty much in the position they're in today where they're trying to keep both alumni and current students happy and failing to do so.

So you could argue that US schools produce really successful people or the US economy is that much stronger that it's able to produce that many successful people etc or really loyal alumni.

I'm sure most European schools would like to go private if they could afford it. But there's no such alumni loyalty that exists on the continent.