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Old 12-03-2011, 08:10 AM
 
Location: Maryland's 6th District.
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Average in-state tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose an additional $631 this fall, or 8.3 percent, compared with a year ago.
Nationally, the cost of a full credit load has passed $8,000, an all-time high. Throw in room and board, and the average list price for a state school now runs more than $17,000 a year, according to the twin annual reports on college costs and student aid published Wednesday by the College Board.

add another year since most people take 5 to graduate. 85k is considered a reasonable price for a degree at a state school these days.
Not really. While the student [or parents] may pay roughly $68 for four years of college, there is something to keep in mind:

If tuition is $8K a year (assuming it does not rise), that leaves $9K for room and board. Seeing how most students go home for the summer and winter break, that price is for 8 months of housing and food. So, that is roughly $1,125 a month. That price includes: "rent", all utilities, cable, Internet, and food. If the student lived off campus, even if they left home at 18 and did not attend college, how much would their yearly COL be? Yup, roughly the same (depending on location).

So to say that it costs $68K to attend a state university is false. You can't factor in costs that the student would have to pay even if they were not in college. It's, what, on average $32K for four years?
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Old 12-03-2011, 10:51 AM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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This is not statistics.

Why would a student choose to go to a school without a strong reputation? So they can go in debt? Why not maximize the value of education? Go to a good school that costs less out of pocket.
For many people though, the good schools don't end up costing less. An upper-middle class family living in a coastal suburb and making 150k a year isn't going to get much financial aid from most top private schools. While 150k is a perfectly comfortable amount of money to live on it does NOT afford 50k+ a year in expenses for higher education. That amount of debt is generally not worth taking on, especially if you plan on going to graduate school, where for the purposes of admissions, grades and standardized test scores are leaps and bounds more important than where you got your bachelor's.
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Old 12-04-2011, 01:15 AM
 
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Average in-state tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose an additional $631 this fall, or 8.3 percent, compared with a year ago.
Nationally, the cost of a full credit load has passed $8,000, an all-time high. Throw in room and board, and the average list price for a state school now runs more than $17,000 a year, according to the twin annual reports on college costs and student aid published Wednesday by the College Board.

add another year since most people take 5 to graduate. 85k is considered a reasonable price for a degree at a state school these days.
Find the cheapest school-take the largest class load- live home ( oh, good grief!)-pack your own lunches and buy used books or copies in a library-don't waste time on a 5th year for a 4 year degree-take off and work to pay if you need to. Stop whining.
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