Bernie Sanders: America Is Drowning in Student Debt. Here's My Plan to End It

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67. Good point.

But a US college typically has several hundred to up to 50,000 students. Not all students are full time.

Building dorms and making dorm life mandatory for first and second year students, as well as mandatory participation in meal plans would remove thousands of expenses each of the two years, in big university towns that savings amount could be as high as $10,000-$11,000 per year.

Third and fourth year as well as graduate students could chose to live in university owned housing for them, join fraternities and sororities or rent on the commercial market. Those that chose university owned housing would continue to see savings, just not at the first and second year rate.

The biggest part of college costs are in rent and food, the Swedish model clearly show that. If their tuition was not free (except for a small fee of around $100), their debt would be as high as in the USA.