Posted on 11/21/2014 2:00:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Nice list, but only the top three have annual tuition rates under $30K per year. Is this what they call affordable now?
um... a high graduation rate to me implies they are just giving diplomas away.
I don’t think I would be advertising such a thing.
Come to our college... we give you a worthless piece of paper after you have learned nothing!
$40,000 a year in tuition is hardly “affordable”.
RE: Nice list, but only the top three have annual tuition rates under $30K per year. Is this what they call affordable now?
In reality, most don’t pay the full tuition. A lot of students are able to apply for aid and other discounted rates.
They recently banned the word as sexist. The students formerly called freshmen are now to be called first-year students.
RE: Come to our college... we give you a worthless piece of paper after you have learned nothing!
If that’s the case, why would they be accredited? (one of the criteria of this survey ).
the public school are accredited too, that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement.
How selective are these schools in admissions, because that’s part of the graduation rate.
I’ve been teaching for over 20 years, grad and undergrad, private university and community college.
I know that some school will schedule classes in such a way that students need more than 4 years to complete their course work, which is very wrong.
But I also know, from the community college experience, that some schools let in students who have no chance of graduating - that is even more wrong.
RE: They recently banned the word as sexist. The students formerly called freshmen are now to be called first-year students.
Princeton University is on the list.
The Tenured Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University is Peter Singer.
Among other things, he suggests that no newborn should be considered a person until 30 days after birth and that the attending physician should have the discretion to kill some disabled babies on the spot.
He once wrote: “Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons”; therefore, “the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.”
RE: How selective are these schools in admissions, because that’s part of the graduation rate.
Well, we can look at the school’s admission rate to find out.
Aw, I actually have to do something. :-)
I agree; only one here is what I MIGHT consider affordable.
When I started college in the mid-80s, I ran into a friend who had just graduated from (then) SW Texas St. (now Texas St.). He commented that in-state tuition that he paid was $4 an hour, but that they had just raised it to $12 an hour. So let’s say you completed your degree, regardless of time, changed your major, and had 140 undergraduate hours at graduation. At 12, your ENTIRE tuition cost would be just over $1600, not counting, of course, books, fees, and living expenses. But the numbers here don’t count that either.
Obviously, it isn’t a dollar to dollar comparison, but even bumping it up for the intervening change in the dollar value, its still $3600 in tuition for the 140 hours. At the private school I started undergraduate at, it was $112 an hour. At that rate, its a bit more — $15.6K, jumped up to about 34.5K today; again, for the ENTIRE college stay. When I finished undergraduate at a state school about 5 years later, I paid about a thousand a semester in tuition, fees, and (I think) books. Books may have been a couple hundred more, but that was EVERYTHING other than living expenses.
College costs are ridiculous, and first year college is all about teaching kids what they should have learned in HS.
Private school is worth the extra money, IMHO. Plus, scholarships are very helpful.
Yeah when I went to school, it was 750 a semester plus about 500 in books.
This 30K -40K crap is so hippie professors can live the good life.
Or you can go to a state school, pay far less, pay attention, work hard and ignore the sports teams, major in something that actually leaves you with a marketable skill, graduate and get a real job.
Well, worked for me.
All but #1 and #2 have annual tuition above $30K, and most are around $40K. So - unless grants and scholarships are involved - the debt at graduation (assuming some parental and student payments prior to graduation) will generally be between $80K-$100K, or $4K-$5K for twenty years. And these are the best bargains available.
From 1968-1972, I went to a private school with annual tuition at about $3,000/year. I think the average annual increase since then has been abut 5%, to about $23,000/year.
About to place my FIFTH child in a college program next Fall.
We are looking very seriously at Grove City (son already accepted at a Penn State branch campus, and will soon learn if he is accepted into their Honors College. He wants to major in Software Engineering).
We have had our kids attend a state school (Pitt); a small Catholic University (Seton Hill); and a small Liberal Arts College (Marietta of Ohio—Pertroleum/Natural Gas Program). We have found smaller “specialty” programs (like the Petro) have smaller classes; more intense work loads and placement offices (Seton Hill included) that make finding internships/interviews their mission. Bigger was more affordable, but also had lecture hall physics and not a lot of job finding support.
RE: We are looking very seriously at Grove City (son already accepted at a Penn State branch campus, and will soon learn if he is accepted into their Honors College. He wants to major in Software Engineering).
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Excellent choice either way. Grove City College has an excellent STEM program and many companies actually go there every year to recruit.
In fact, many of their Computer Science grads go on to graduate school at nearby Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh is just an hour away ).
They had the largest on campus career fair yet with over 160 companies, businesses, graduate schools and other organizations connecting with 1,200 students looking for work, internships or a place to continue their education.
My daughter is an alumni of their business school and is now working as a Financial Analyst for Edelman, the world’s largest PR company.
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