University of Phoenix gets about $1,000 for a 4 unit class. Graduation typically takes 120 semester units. That's about $30,000 right here.
My nephew just go accepted to U.C. Davis. He will live on campus. Expenses are projected at $23,000 per year. I lived off campus and coughed up $212 per quarter plus $100 in books. Annual parking fee was $40 in 1974-76. Prices have gone way up since then.
My son's former girlfriend went to Georgetown University. Her parents mortgaged the house to cover $38,000 per year. She was on campus when the aircraft hit the Pentagon on 9-11. Today, she is doing graduate work in math at Columbia university with a full ride scholarship. She has to teach in New York schools for two years to pay back the scholarship.
Why anyone would pay that much for mail-order college is beyond me. There are more than enough community colleges and state University extensions out there to give degrees with more prestige and less cost.