The Syrian university fees have increased significantly, in addition to food prices other expenses which force undergraduate girls to work in prostitution as a temporary solution to overcome their financial problems. According to sources, many girls who had engaged in prostitution formerly have formed networks inside universities to recruit beautiful girls and convince them to provide sexual services to a specific person for a lot of money. 
Social expert Rima Saleh said that "there are some girls are more likely to enroll in a university to escape from the control of parents and engage in sexual relation for fun or money, adding and this kind of girls affects others even more. There are also poor girls from outside the capital who are wiling to do anything to stay in university and not to return to the village where there is no chance of success. This type is looking for anyone who can raise her social level and they may provide sexual services to any of them. There are also love stories that take place within the university and include sexual practices which may lead to blackmail the girls to force them into prostitution. .
Saleh indicated that this will reflect negatively on the girl in the future and on society as a whole. Many suicides would occur in the future among the girls because of the repercussions of this issue.