[Trailerpark Badass]

Are you comparing 4-year costs to annual?

That's how it looks.

There is no way UVA is $10K for 4 years.

[EDINVA]

noooooooooooooooooooooooo hahahaha, don’t we WISH !!!

I thought I set out tuition and tuition only for the 2010-11 school year only; same for all the others.

So if your kid is going to, say, UVA, the tuition is $10K+ for that year, then some increase over the four years, probably ending up around $12.5K in his/her senior year for just the tuition. Throw in the rest and it’s a cool $30K/year.

So now we understand why the private comparables are now running $50K. Ugh. This just can’t be sustained.

[EDINVA]

Usually in speaking of college costs, it’s done on an annual basis, given the increases from year to year for ALL costs. This writer did say a four year TX degree costs on average $30K, but that would be only for tuition and books. (Bought any college textbooks lately? Worse than tuition, etc!)

So if I’m looking to send a kid to UT-Austin, I start at @$10K just tuition/books, then throw in the housing/food/fees/extracurricular, blah blah blah. ‘Tain’t cheap even at public U’s any more.