Ask any family with post-secondary students and they will tell you just how outrageous are the costs of college education today.

FORBES: College Costs Out Of Control

Virginia Tech has been, statistically, one of the safest campuses in the U.S. The school of over 27, 000 students reported just 45 crimes in 2005 to the Office of Post Secondary Education, a rate of 1.6 per thousand.

FORBES: Keeping Campus Crime At Bay

In the United States, where loans for university students are packaged and sold as securities guaranteed by the government, much post-secondary education is already financed in this way.

ECONOMIST: Kids need liquidity, too