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More and more people take longer than 4yrs these days although i dont have the numbers.
Well, yeah... if they are part-timers!
Anyone going full time (except for specific 5 year programs) is just wasting time by taking 5 years to get a 4 year degree.
Well, yeah... if they are part-timers!
Anyone going full time (except for specific 5 year programs) is just wasting time by taking 5 years to get a 4 year degree.
More and more people take longer than 4yrs these days although i dont have the numbers.
There are a lot of "bad" schools out there .
According to the UC system, 60% of people finish in 4. 90% in 5. 97% in 6.
According to the college board, the average is 4.7, which doesn't quite jive with UC, but, after accounting for all other schools "below" UC system, is reasonable.
MOST people do take longer than 4 years, even if it's just a semester or two.
But let's go back to the OP.
$68k for 4 years is really a bargain. You are telling me you are going to provide your own lodging, food, utilities, and volunteer for 40 hours a week for only $17,000 per year? Can you live on $1400/month? Can you live "as well" as a college student on $1400/month in an average college town?
IF money is the issue you say it is, why will you take 5 years if you can be out - and save that money - in 4?
its a state school im talking about. overpopulated and you cant get into the classes you need, plus dumb useless requirements that everybody has to take.
its a state school im talking about. overpopulated and you cant get into the classes you need, plus dumb useless requirements that everybody has to take.
Funny, I never had any of those problems (and while my state school was good, there are plenty that are even better: Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, etc.). I'll grant you that the UC/Cal State system is in pretty awful shape, but not every state's pre-recession economy was bolstered to the heavens by speculation.
And news-flash: just about every college has a core curriculum.
Indeed I did. It was certainly expensive for a state school (the most expensive in-state tuition in the country behind Penn State, I believe) but it was still far cheaper than BU, GW, Syracuse, and all those other T40-60 private research universities which are of essentially equal educational quality.
To be fair, neither Pitt or Penn State are true "state schools"; rather they are "state supported". So they are considerably more expensive than Pennsylvania's true public universities...the PASSHE schools. However none of the PASSHE schools can compete with either Pitt or Penn State in terms of quality. So the bottom line is: PA residents really get shafted when it comes to higher education!
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