In the EU I paid 250 Euro per year, so 1.000 Euro total for my graduate degree. The US system is insane. Why do you tolerate such obvious racketeering?
Just curious, do you think what you paid is the actual cost to provide you that education?
No. Tuition fees is just one of 5 money streams that the university relies on. Te others being Research grants, Service provisioning (contract research mostly), subsidies and Assets & Investments.