"Universities are not vocational education facilities though."

Their prices say they are. There is no way they could be as expensive as they are, except that they are capturing a lot of the value of the vocational education they are expected to provide. Their prices speak louder than high-falutin' principles.

I'll permit University's their "we're not vocational training facilities" argument when their prices come back down to something like a 1980s level and reflect their expectation that they are not doing vocational training.