Nice list, but only the top three have annual tuition rates under $30K per year. Is this what they call affordable now?
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.
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.
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.
Nice list, but only the top three have annual tuition rates under $30K per year. Is this what they call affordable now?
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I noticed the schools were ranked based on out-of-state tuition and there was no mention of in-state tuition. It seems that most of the schools listed were oriented toward Liberal Arts instead of viable careers offered by schools like Cal Tech and Rice. ...........The tuition costs in the article are outrageous.
I had several co-worker parents that, together, purchased a condo near Texas A&M for their kids to live in while attending school there. When the kids graduated, they would sell the condo to other parents of students. Saved a lot regarding the dorm and food expenses charged by the schools.
I earned my BBA (’73 & age 31) at a TX state school, NTSU (now UNT). Tuition for 15 hours per semester was $121 and additional courses were free. Though there were some dorms there, the school in Denton TX was primarily a commuter school. ...I have no idea what out-of-state tuition was back then. .....I subsequently attended a private university in Dallas and paid tuition of $400 for each 3 hour course in the MBA program (48 hours = $6400).