“ Get the money from mommy and daddy or put in a few years of free public service.”
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Well, if three years in the army including a tour in Vietnam then I did my obligatory public service. So, after the army I went to college on the GI Bill and worked the night shift at a truck stop. No student loans, paid as I went. But, I attended a college with the word State in its name. Attended 1969 ~ 1972. Anyway, got a BA in Economics. And, got a job, worked for the company 35 years and am now comfortably retired. All it took was hard work and lived within my means. Did I mention that I raised two daughters who graduated from college and paid their way by working and I helped some too. Moral of this is a college degree can be achieved without going in debt if one w-o-r-ks at it. I am not for college loan forgiveness.
What did you pay for tuition?
What do you think it is today?
Your experience isn’t even close to what can happen today.
At my old school, instate tuition starts at $9K a year for non STEM degrees and goes up to 11 or 12 for STEM.
That doesn’t include a housing plan, food, or anything else. That is another $10K a year.
So if you live on campus, you are paying $20k for in state, double for out of state. Figure $80 to $100K for four years.
Which is very cheap.
A 20 hour a week job paying $14 an hour might clear most of that, but you won’t get that in a college town.
Grad school is even harder.
Ditto. What he well said.