Also, I was afflicted by Ralph Nader's negative checkoff on my state tuition bill. I doubt you had the same annoyance in 1964.
The $540 per semester costs included room and board, but then again, my first job upon graduation paid only $5,600 (which was considered a pretty good salary then). So, it evened out.
As regards Ralph Nader, there certainly was no “negative checkoff on my state tuition bill” since I had never heard of him then. And I doubt that Alabama’s higher education institutions would burden their students with anything regarding that guy then or later.