There are research universities and teaching universities. If you want to go to a college that focuses on teaching calculus 101 they exist though I don&#x27;t know why as a budding mathematician you&#x27;d want to sprint full speed away from doing real mathematics.<p>The research has to be done somewhere. It&#x27;s supposed to be subsidized by the public or private donations but funding is regularly and methodically cut so the only remaining reliable source of income is tuition which ends up having to pay for both.<p>Not an ideal situation but unless Americans start deciding research is worth paying money for (unlikely) it&#x27;s what we have.