[Domandred]

associated costs every year

I just paid $147 for a 400 page paperback textbook. Paperback. Couldn't believe it.

And of course it's the same text as last year (5th edition oooh), but with a different cover, but have to buy the new one, not the old used one.

RICO I tell you.

[Lou L]

Oh, I sympathize. Been there, and done that. It is racketeering, the way "required reading lists" always contain textbooks written by the profs teaching the courses, or "fellow" faculty.

When I finished school, back in the mid-1990's, I paid off my modest student loans in about two years. Now, surely 10 years is the norm...maybe longer.

[USNBandit]

Profs get to chose the book list. They can chose their own books, or their friends' books. I can't even remember how many books I bought for classes that I never even opened, and that was at Annapolis.

My father hated that racket so much that he wrote his own book for the astronomy course he taught. It was a paperback and came with a matching workbook for $20.

Another scam universities use these days is they make it almost impossible schedule the classes needed to graduate in four years.

[tiki]

Yes, that is one thing my DIL had was a book scholarship, she paid for the rest herself and took as many classes as she could afford each year, it has taken her 8 years but she finished the academic portion this week and has 18 weeks of internship and she’ll be graduating in December with no debt.