Has the multi-year growth in cost of higher education greatly exceeding inflation been manipulated to happen by the Extraterrestrial Alliance?

This is very much the case. It is a compounding of errors causing further disempowerment and disparagement, and a gigantic headwind on human progress, putting people on an endless treadmill of debt, reducing their flexibility and their freedom. It is the next best thing to massive prisons. Instead of creating cells with bars, people are slotted into educational tracks to create lifelong debt, and this is much like a prison. They will be serving for the duration that limits their freedom. The rise in costs were aided and abetted by mind control programming to convince people of its tremendous value and to manipulate the governments to support higher education through ready availability of low-interest loans that nonetheless impoverish people and create a debt burden they cannot escape from without heavy penalties. This was a trap that was set baited with the tempting prospect of legitimacy in society and a ticket to the future to be among the elite and powerful, when the reality is, only a very few are allowed in and the masses who would emulate that role model, can never hope to have such opportunities because there are simply too many ordinary citizens for the relatively small positions of authority. So all are gambling to be the ones to be the ones who rise to the top and all pay the cost of competing when only a very few have a real payoff to justify the investment. At the same time, the work they did to get there will have been largely a misdirection and a squandering of true human talent they exhibited and could have done much more with in the right setting with the right support and encouragement. So it is a Pyrrhic victory, in the end, to be a leader in a mediocre society, and turns out to be no great achievement after all.