I think you have to look at the costs vs. Income. My daughter decided to go to college in Manhattan, where both tuition and cost of living are very high. When she graduated college in 2006, she immediately got a great job with a salary of 6 figures which back then was good money. Based on that alone, the $250k cost of college was a good investment.
My private college cost about 10% more than I earned my first year in Ohio. I did not live on campus. It did not cost 2+ times the offer.
Seems like I got a bargain. Now my old college costs 2.5 times the typical offer for the same major. Educational cost increases far exceeded inflation over 40 years much as they did in the 4 years I went.
College on the East and West coasts are far more expensive than the mid states. I have a nephew who’s attending North Dakota university for avionics. The tuition is less than 1/3 the price of my Sons college (RPI). And MOST colleges give financial aid to over half their student body. Many colleges like Harvard no longer give merit scholarships. It’s based solely on financial need. If you get accepted into Harvard and you family income is less than $75k then tuition/room-and-board is FREE.
A big reason for the difference in tuition cost is that RPI is a private university and UND is public. Public universities are subsidized by taxpayers. SUNY and UND might be more comparable.
Not so much for out of state residences unless there’s a reciprocal agreement with that state.
Even SUNY is more than twice the cost of UND.
SUNY - $33,650.
UND - $10,900
Is that in state for UND? Even a rural state like South Carolina’s USC was $27,000 for out of state students for tuition, room, and board when my daughter went there about 13 years ago. It was around $10,000 less for in state students.
Out of state is $16,000. But they tell incoming students to stay over the summer to become residences to get the instate tuition. The state encourages this.
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Hello. I think we are getting away from cars/driving/what have you. Can we please redirect? Thanks.
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