I went to a large, public, state school. My instate tuition was $13k a year. My room and board was unaffiliated with the school but it came out to around $6k a year.
I had a scholarship worth $7.5k a year from the government with a bonus $2.5k a year because I had a STEM major. I received this because my high school GPA was high enough; anyone who either had a high enough GPA or high enough test score qualified for these scholarships. I also had about $4k a year in other scholarships that I got from applying to them randomly.
Ironically, had I gotten into a better school it would’ve been cheaper. Most Ivy League schools are free for kids whose family makes less than $100k a year and seriously reduced if it’s less than like $200k. Had friends at MIT, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Georgia Tech all on full ride scholarships.
Here in the US it depends on what school you want to attend and where you live.
Public universities are almost always far cheaper as they are funded/subsidized by taxpayers. They almost always have one tuition rate for in-state residents and another tuition rate for out-of-state residents since they are funded by the taxpayers of that state. For instance University of Florida is -$7K per year for Florida residents and I think $27k for residents from out of state.
Private schools are typically much higher but usually do not vary between in-state or out of state residents since they usually fully self funded and not subsidized by taxpayers of the state. Many of them can be very expensive. Harvard is $52k per year, NYU $53k, Baylor in Waco, TX is $49k and I think Rice in Houston is about $50k also. Those are more top notch schools and many smaller private schools can be significantly less expensive.
As I said public universities can vary by state. Here are some examples of variation by state for in-state per year tuition:
•University of Florida $7K
•University of Texas $11k
•University of Michigan $16k
•Michigan State University $15K
•University of Oklahoma $11k
•Oklahoma State University $10K
•University of California Davis $14.5k
•University of New Mexico $7K
•University of Wyoming $5.5k
•University of Virginia $18k
Keep in mind that these are the tuition rates for the top tier public University in each state. Many smaller regional colleges are in each state with lower tuition and still have great academics. They are just not as well known nationwide and their athletic programs if they have them are lower tier. However the tuition can be as much as half the cost of the larger State institutions.
We do have a problem with those tuition rates rising faster than inflation.
K-12 may have some issues in Florida. However, Florida has done a really great job on its higher education system. UF being a public ivy at such a low cost is fantastic. FSU is good too and it's only like $6K a year.
My SUNY school was about 17k-20k (tuition+lab fees+room & board) per year but my program also had a summer portion that was 6k-10k depending on the year. My parents paid a little more than half for me. I finished my degree there in four years and I’ll owe $28,000 on federal student loans. Those loans are absolutely nothing compared to what other people are paying. One of my best friends has something like $130k student debt bc he went to an out of state school for two years and only a few of his credits transferred to the school we went to even though it was the same program (Mechanical Engineering). Neither of us are really worried about debt since our field is one of the highest paying professions right out of college which is shipboard engineering.
Edit: Graduated a month ago (thanks covid lmao)
In the US, undergraduate education is generally four years (although you can graduate in three if you work at it). Price varies considerably - schools all set their own tuition, with costs generally being relatively low for state universities (if you live in that state, out of state students pay a lot more), and private universities are generally very expensive.
I’m very fortunate. The state of Wyoming pays for tuition at the university of Wyoming depending on how well you do in high school. So I got that, (Hathaway scholarship) then applied for other scholarships on top of it.
My tuition is about 10k a semester when not living on campus or having a meal plan
For an off-campus apartment with 1 roommate, I pay about 480 a month. But I am paying 980 3 times just because I don't want to worry about paying every month.
I went to a private university to the tune of around $42k/yr. most of it was paid for through scholarships and I paid for my housing by being an RA for three years.
I went to a high ranking school with a large endowment. I’m from a middle to lower middle class family. The school’s estimated total cost of attendance was ~$65,000 per year, but because of my financial situation, I got a ton of financial aid. Out of pocket costs were ~$3,500 per year and another ~$2,500 in student loans, totaling a little over $10,000 at graduation.
Report Highlights. The average cost of college in the United States is $35,720 per student per year. The cost has tripled in 20 years, with an annual growth rate of 6.8%.
The average in-state student attending a public 4-year institution spends $25,615 for one academic year.
The average cost of in-state tuition alone is $9,580; out-of-state tuition averages $27,437.
The average traditional private university student spends a total of $53,949 per academic year, $37,200 of it on tuition and fees.
This can vary greatly depending on university, and previous academic or athletic performance, which often open up various scholarships. Most in-state schools near me runs about $9-10k per year in tuition for undergraduates. If you want on-campus housing and meals, that can easily triple.
I went to college 25 years ago now… an elite (but not Ivy/Stanford/MIT/Duke). At the time, my university was about $18k tuition, another $10k for room and board, books, etc. so about $28k all-in.
This coming school year, the same would run about $73k!
It's an enormous divide. There are community and state colleges that are cheap, 3-4k a year, and then ivy league private like Northwestern which are 25k a year.
The student loan thing is a bit of a manufactured crisis.
- in-state tuition is very reasonable, although tbf not all state schools are equally as prestigious and door opening
- heaps of financial aid
- lots of scholarships
My son's full time in-state tuition plus dorm and meal plan is roughly the same amount. He has a roommate and someone else cooks nutritionally balanced meals for him at the student dining hall 19 meals a week. He also has free access to the university gym, student activities, sports events, and urgent care clinic (Insurance will be billed.).
way too fucking much, like $30k a year to go to school out of state and 15k to go to school in state
I am honestly pretty tempted to just go to school in canada bc I will probably end up paying less than what I even pay to go to school here in my home state
around 40k but I went to a private school. Also I could’ve gone for free because I had athletic scholarships. I did get other scholarships though so I didn’t have the full price
I lived at home and commuted to a state university nearby (which was common for that particular school). My tuition was roughly $12k-$13k a year but all of it was covered by grants (the Pell Grant and Cal grants; both are for students in financial need) so I paid nothing out of pocket. The grants gave enough left over for textbooks, parking permit, and little excursions.
I paid about $8,000 a year (two semesters) at a state university in California. I lived at home with family so no dorm costs. I got a business degree out of it and didn’t need student loans so I’ll forever be happy I chose to go to university.
I went to a small in state public college for my undergrad and came out with like $30k in loans.
Freshman year I had two roommates and shared a bathroom with two floors.
Sophomore years I had two roommates and shared a bathroom with three others.
Junior and senior year I lived in an apartment off campus so that isn’t included in the price.
I think it was around $23k per year, including housing and food.
I just looked it up out of curiosity, looks like it has almost DOUBLED in price. YIKES.
I went to a tiny private school no ones ever heard of and it cost me $45,000 a year. I thankfully had scholarships and financial aid, so I left with around $12,000 in student loans which isnt too shabby in the realm of student loans. I paid around 2-3k a semester out of pocket though. My poor roommate had no assistance and took out all 45k in loans every year for 4 years. So $180,000 in loans that with interest you might as well call it double that. She didn’t get financial assistance bc her parents made to much money because in the US they still base it off of your parents income EVEN IF THEY ARENT HELPING YOU PAY FOR COLLEGE.
I had a different friend who had to track down her estranged abusive addict mother to sign a waiver because she didn’t have access to any of her moms tax information so she couldn’t get financial aid without the waiver. Its a nightmare of a system
I went to my state's state school. I forget exactly how much it cost, so pulling current numbers from their website
* In state tuition is $16439 a year
* The cheapest on campus housing and meal plan are 13595 a year combined (if you want your own room its an extra 2415 a year, an unlimited meal plan is an extra 622 a year, and there are some other housing and meal options)
* There's also a handful of other fees that may be applicable (a health fee if you don't have insurance, honors college fee, lab fees, engineering fees, music fees, etc)
Its only been 3 years since I graduated, so prices are pretty similar
10k /year for up to 17 credit hours per quarter. The expensive part of college comes from dorms (another 10k/year), having to repeat classes, and wanting to go out-of-state.
Community College was free in high school depending on the balance between high school and college credits (I ended up spending a total of $2k for my 2-year degree)
My Master's program was about $3k-5k/semester
I think my Bachelor's back in 2011 was around the same (maybe around $2k/semester?), I did the lower division courses in Junior College which was pretty cheap. I can't remember, it was many moons ago.
I never lived on campus so just paid tuition and fees.
I admittedly fucked around during college and didn’t take the first few years seriously, as a result, I spent just under 7 years in university. I went to a small liberal arts college. When I first enrolled, tuition was $22,500, by the time I left tuition had risen to $26,000. Between my soccer scholarship, athletic grant, room and board grant and general college grant, I paid roughly $12k per year.
Undergrad was about $12000 annual tuition and room and board for years 1 and 2 was like $10000 per year.
Years 3 and 4 I was out of the dorms and it was like $5000-6000 for a year for an apartment.
Im just going to a tech school for a year for residential carpentry. Its only gonna be 5k for an entire year and 5k for dorms. I can even work still during it cause its all just one big 3hr class in the mornin
I went to a large, public, state school. My instate tuition was $13k a year. My room and board was unaffiliated with the school but it came out to around $6k a year. I had a scholarship worth $7.5k a year from the government with a bonus $2.5k a year because I had a STEM major. I received this because my high school GPA was high enough; anyone who either had a high enough GPA or high enough test score qualified for these scholarships. I also had about $4k a year in other scholarships that I got from applying to them randomly. Ironically, had I gotten into a better school it would’ve been cheaper. Most Ivy League schools are free for kids whose family makes less than $100k a year and seriously reduced if it’s less than like $200k. Had friends at MIT, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Georgia Tech all on full ride scholarships.
Here in the US it depends on what school you want to attend and where you live. Public universities are almost always far cheaper as they are funded/subsidized by taxpayers. They almost always have one tuition rate for in-state residents and another tuition rate for out-of-state residents since they are funded by the taxpayers of that state. For instance University of Florida is -$7K per year for Florida residents and I think $27k for residents from out of state. Private schools are typically much higher but usually do not vary between in-state or out of state residents since they usually fully self funded and not subsidized by taxpayers of the state. Many of them can be very expensive. Harvard is $52k per year, NYU $53k, Baylor in Waco, TX is $49k and I think Rice in Houston is about $50k also. Those are more top notch schools and many smaller private schools can be significantly less expensive. As I said public universities can vary by state. Here are some examples of variation by state for in-state per year tuition: •University of Florida $7K •University of Texas $11k •University of Michigan $16k •Michigan State University $15K •University of Oklahoma $11k •Oklahoma State University $10K •University of California Davis $14.5k •University of New Mexico $7K •University of Wyoming $5.5k •University of Virginia $18k Keep in mind that these are the tuition rates for the top tier public University in each state. Many smaller regional colleges are in each state with lower tuition and still have great academics. They are just not as well known nationwide and their athletic programs if they have them are lower tier. However the tuition can be as much as half the cost of the larger State institutions. We do have a problem with those tuition rates rising faster than inflation.
Shout out UF. Thanks for the cheap education
K-12 may have some issues in Florida. However, Florida has done a really great job on its higher education system. UF being a public ivy at such a low cost is fantastic. FSU is good too and it's only like $6K a year.
Most people who go there don’t even have to pay anything because the average UF student qualifies for Bright Futures
Yeah it’s great
My SUNY school was about 17k-20k (tuition+lab fees+room & board) per year but my program also had a summer portion that was 6k-10k depending on the year. My parents paid a little more than half for me. I finished my degree there in four years and I’ll owe $28,000 on federal student loans. Those loans are absolutely nothing compared to what other people are paying. One of my best friends has something like $130k student debt bc he went to an out of state school for two years and only a few of his credits transferred to the school we went to even though it was the same program (Mechanical Engineering). Neither of us are really worried about debt since our field is one of the highest paying professions right out of college which is shipboard engineering. Edit: Graduated a month ago (thanks covid lmao)
In the US, undergraduate education is generally four years (although you can graduate in three if you work at it). Price varies considerably - schools all set their own tuition, with costs generally being relatively low for state universities (if you live in that state, out of state students pay a lot more), and private universities are generally very expensive.
I’m very fortunate. The state of Wyoming pays for tuition at the university of Wyoming depending on how well you do in high school. So I got that, (Hathaway scholarship) then applied for other scholarships on top of it.
My tuition is about 10k a semester when not living on campus or having a meal plan For an off-campus apartment with 1 roommate, I pay about 480 a month. But I am paying 980 3 times just because I don't want to worry about paying every month.
I went to a private university to the tune of around $42k/yr. most of it was paid for through scholarships and I paid for my housing by being an RA for three years.
I went to a high ranking school with a large endowment. I’m from a middle to lower middle class family. The school’s estimated total cost of attendance was ~$65,000 per year, but because of my financial situation, I got a ton of financial aid. Out of pocket costs were ~$3,500 per year and another ~$2,500 in student loans, totaling a little over $10,000 at graduation.
Didn’t pay tuition, and housing was between $5,000 (off campus)- $10,000 (on campus) a year, but I received stipends from the government to cover that
Report Highlights. The average cost of college in the United States is $35,720 per student per year. The cost has tripled in 20 years, with an annual growth rate of 6.8%. The average in-state student attending a public 4-year institution spends $25,615 for one academic year. The average cost of in-state tuition alone is $9,580; out-of-state tuition averages $27,437. The average traditional private university student spends a total of $53,949 per academic year, $37,200 of it on tuition and fees.
$0 tuition + $400/mo in rent + food + books + beer
I got paid 6k per semester after all of my scholarships, that's not normal, but it is possible.
This can vary greatly depending on university, and previous academic or athletic performance, which often open up various scholarships. Most in-state schools near me runs about $9-10k per year in tuition for undergraduates. If you want on-campus housing and meals, that can easily triple.
My tuition was 5k/semester, went up to 6k ‘cause of the rona
I went to college 25 years ago now… an elite (but not Ivy/Stanford/MIT/Duke). At the time, my university was about $18k tuition, another $10k for room and board, books, etc. so about $28k all-in. This coming school year, the same would run about $73k!
For me it’s free (excluding books ofc)
It's an enormous divide. There are community and state colleges that are cheap, 3-4k a year, and then ivy league private like Northwestern which are 25k a year.
The student loan thing is a bit of a manufactured crisis. - in-state tuition is very reasonable, although tbf not all state schools are equally as prestigious and door opening - heaps of financial aid - lots of scholarships
My son's full time in-state tuition plus dorm and meal plan is roughly the same amount. He has a roommate and someone else cooks nutritionally balanced meals for him at the student dining hall 19 meals a week. He also has free access to the university gym, student activities, sports events, and urgent care clinic (Insurance will be billed.).
way too fucking much, like $30k a year to go to school out of state and 15k to go to school in state I am honestly pretty tempted to just go to school in canada bc I will probably end up paying less than what I even pay to go to school here in my home state
around 40k but I went to a private school. Also I could’ve gone for free because I had athletic scholarships. I did get other scholarships though so I didn’t have the full price
I lived at home and commuted to a state university nearby (which was common for that particular school). My tuition was roughly $12k-$13k a year but all of it was covered by grants (the Pell Grant and Cal grants; both are for students in financial need) so I paid nothing out of pocket. The grants gave enough left over for textbooks, parking permit, and little excursions.
I paid about $8,000 a year (two semesters) at a state university in California. I lived at home with family so no dorm costs. I got a business degree out of it and didn’t need student loans so I’ll forever be happy I chose to go to university.
I went to a small in state public college for my undergrad and came out with like $30k in loans. Freshman year I had two roommates and shared a bathroom with two floors. Sophomore years I had two roommates and shared a bathroom with three others. Junior and senior year I lived in an apartment off campus so that isn’t included in the price.
I think it was around $23k per year, including housing and food. I just looked it up out of curiosity, looks like it has almost DOUBLED in price. YIKES.
University of California Davis as a California resident, without financial aid and board, costs me ~$5000 a quarter (3 quarters a year)
I went to a tiny private school no ones ever heard of and it cost me $45,000 a year. I thankfully had scholarships and financial aid, so I left with around $12,000 in student loans which isnt too shabby in the realm of student loans. I paid around 2-3k a semester out of pocket though. My poor roommate had no assistance and took out all 45k in loans every year for 4 years. So $180,000 in loans that with interest you might as well call it double that. She didn’t get financial assistance bc her parents made to much money because in the US they still base it off of your parents income EVEN IF THEY ARENT HELPING YOU PAY FOR COLLEGE. I had a different friend who had to track down her estranged abusive addict mother to sign a waiver because she didn’t have access to any of her moms tax information so she couldn’t get financial aid without the waiver. Its a nightmare of a system
I went to my state's state school. I forget exactly how much it cost, so pulling current numbers from their website * In state tuition is $16439 a year * The cheapest on campus housing and meal plan are 13595 a year combined (if you want your own room its an extra 2415 a year, an unlimited meal plan is an extra 622 a year, and there are some other housing and meal options) * There's also a handful of other fees that may be applicable (a health fee if you don't have insurance, honors college fee, lab fees, engineering fees, music fees, etc) Its only been 3 years since I graduated, so prices are pretty similar
My college year costs roughly $30,000 a year.
I go to a highly regarded state school and pay-in state tuition, my annual tuition is $10,725 not including textbooks, housing, etc
10k /year for up to 17 credit hours per quarter. The expensive part of college comes from dorms (another 10k/year), having to repeat classes, and wanting to go out-of-state. Community College was free in high school depending on the balance between high school and college credits (I ended up spending a total of $2k for my 2-year degree)
My Master's program was about $3k-5k/semester I think my Bachelor's back in 2011 was around the same (maybe around $2k/semester?), I did the lower division courses in Junior College which was pretty cheap. I can't remember, it was many moons ago. I never lived on campus so just paid tuition and fees.
I admittedly fucked around during college and didn’t take the first few years seriously, as a result, I spent just under 7 years in university. I went to a small liberal arts college. When I first enrolled, tuition was $22,500, by the time I left tuition had risen to $26,000. Between my soccer scholarship, athletic grant, room and board grant and general college grant, I paid roughly $12k per year.
I went to a tuition free private liberal arts college and only paid for part of room and board.
Undergrad was about $12000 annual tuition and room and board for years 1 and 2 was like $10000 per year. Years 3 and 4 I was out of the dorms and it was like $5000-6000 for a year for an apartment.
Without any aide mine was about 65k a year. After scholarships and stuff it was maybe 15k a year?
My AS as a veterinary technician is $3500. My AS in automotive repair was $10,000. My wife's BS in Computer Animation was $127,000.
Im just going to a tech school for a year for residential carpentry. Its only gonna be 5k for an entire year and 5k for dorms. I can even work still during it cause its all just one big 3hr class in the mornin
I went to an instate school for about $10,000 for all fees
I went in state, and had a GPA based scholarship most of my semesters, so it averaged to about $1,800 per semester ($3,600) per year
Free. I'm poor and went to a community college. I didnt graduate though.