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- seans9, on 10/27/2008, -0/+116My school didn't make the list but I still feel like I'm being ass raped.
- heyitslunar, on 10/28/2008, -0/+97Highest Tuition 2008-2009
College Tuition
1. Bates College $43,950
2. Middlebury College $42,910
3. Colby College $42,730
4. Union College (NY) $40,953
5. Connecticut College $40,900
6. George Washington University $40,392
7. Vassar College $39,635
8. Sarah Lawrence College $39,450
9. Bucknell University $39,434
10. Colgate University $39,275
11. Carnegie Mellon $39,150
12. Kenyon College $39,080
13. Skidmore College $38,888
14. St. Johns College $38,854
15. University of Richmond $38,850
16. Tulane University $38,664
17. Wheaton College (MA) $38,585
18. Franklin & Marshall College $38,580
19. Wesleyan University $38,364
20. Hamilton College $38,220
21. Oberlin College $38,012
22. Reed College $37,960
23. Tufts University $37,952
24. Dickinson College $37,900
25. Bard College at Simon's Rock $37,860
Highest Total Cost 2008-2009
College Total Cost
1. Sarah Lawrence College $53,166
2. George Washington University $50,312
3. New York University $50,182
4. Georgetown University $49,689
5. Connecticut College $49,385
6. Bates College $49,350
7. Johns Hopkins University $49,278
8. Skidmore College $49,266
9. Scripps College $49,236
10. Middlebury College $49,210
11. Carnegie Mellon University $49,200
12. Boston College $49,020
13. Wesleyan University $49,000
14. Colgate University $48,900
15. Claremont McKenna College $48,755
16. Vassar College $48,675
17. Haverford College $48,625
18. University of Chicago $48,588
19. Union College (NY) $48,552
20. Colby College $48,520
21. Mount Holyoke College $48,500
22. Tufts University $48,470
23. Bard College at Simon's Rock $48,460
24. Franklin & Marshall College $48,450
25. Bard College $48,438 - bongfarmer, on 10/28/2008, -7/+81I go to one of the most expensive schools in Canada and pay about $5000 a year. Oh the horrors of socialism I feel every day!! Wont you save me from this cursed ideology Sarah?? I can't bear it any longer! The people getting education substitised so admission is based on merit and motivation, not privilege, the country investing in the future generation that our economy and prosperity will rely on! We need your folksy wisdom to spare america from the same fate!
- Trekhawk, on 10/27/2008, -1/+68"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." -Derek Bok
- AmyVernon, on 10/27/2008, -3/+37Wow. I've never even heard of the top few colleges. wtf makes them so expensive?
- lovemorgul, on 10/27/2008, -1/+34It's insane how much colleges charge!
- 029JO, on 10/27/2008, -5/+30My personal belief is that when education starts getting expensive a country is in big trouble.
- cle2105, on 10/28/2008, -1/+22There all private East Coast schools where rich kids go to meet other rich kids so they can use their connections to maintain their richness. Think of them as country clubs but with added summer camp elements
- kiiwii, on 10/28/2008, -0/+20"I can't imagine having $20,000 in debt looming over my head.......I'd go nuts."
20k in debt? That would be a bargain. - spunkinator, on 10/28/2008, -1/+19Most of the colleges on this list of expensive colleges are private liberal arts schools located in the northeast that boast low student-to-teacher ratios.
I want to go to a university called "Colgate". Sounds refreshing. Or "Skidmore". It might be worth the long run. - yunus, on 10/28/2008, -3/+18Schools are businesses and they make money, they charge more and more for their product because they can. The more they charge the more the government attempts to make more credit available to students and subsidizes the schools, so the colleges charge more. Until people stop paying outrageous amounts tuition will only go up.
- xadhominemx, on 10/28/2008, -0/+15They have places in America where you can go to college for $5000 a year. They're called public schools.
- gotsome, on 10/28/2008, -3/+18I go to Johns Hopkins and pay almost $50,000 a year for tuition. In addition to that, the school screws us over in every possible way, charging absurd amount for meals and any other goods. Gotta love it.
- garryw, on 10/28/2008, -1/+16and the Iraq and such as
- Nidy1, on 10/28/2008, -0/+15In my state there are state schools where you can get a great education at a low cost. I'm paying around $4,000 a year. Other states don't have similar programs?
- mmalecki, on 10/28/2008, -1/+15site down already?
- inactive, on 10/28/2008, -3/+16***** Sallie Mae!
- meruru, on 10/28/2008, -0/+13It's also a matter of demand. College used to be just for the best and the brightest; most average students would take jobs in factories or similar such jobs. Now every parent and school administrator tries to get all the 'C' students to go to college.
- cawpin, on 10/28/2008, -1/+14Yes, they do. Don't try to argue with ignorance. They'll just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ANYBODY, and I do mean anybody, can get a college education for nearly free if they look for grants and scholarships. There's a damned scholarship for being left handed for God's sake.
I was extremely lucky, as my mom worked at Purdue, so I got a degree from a top 5 engineering school (in the US) for $8,000. That's total, not a year. I got 51% off tuition and 20% off books. I also lived 15 minutes away from it my entire life so my first year I lived at home and had no housing costs.
I know that not everyone can have that luxury but it isn't that hard to get your school paid for. My wife did it all on her own. She got grants and scholarships, like I mentioned above, to pay for everything. The only expense she had was housing. - monarch00, on 10/28/2008, -2/+15Until you can spell "subsidized" correctly I would argue that you are getting what you paid for ;-)
- jdmCrush, on 10/28/2008, -4/+16You do have to realise, though, that very few people pay the entire tuition. So much is subsidized by scholaships for being left handed, for having a GPA above 2.0, for being part of the dradle club, etc....whie it still is criminally expensive, a good percentage are paying half the cost at most.
I'm going to community college for 2yrs (undergraduate is almost the same anywhere you go!), then will transfer to finish my major studies at a 4yr university. That cuts down my budget by, oh, $50,000? - donquixotex, on 10/28/2008, -0/+12Actually, the Ivies are making great progress in helping students' burden. Harvard specifically has incredible plans to help students coming from families who make less than 180000 (which is a huge percentage of the population). http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/12.13/99-f ...
RedStormRising, although you can still find those few legacies, athletes, etc. that get in through connections, the vast, vast majority of students attending Ivy Leagues (at least at Harvard) are extremely talented people who have worked hard to get in. - inactive, on 10/28/2008, -1/+12Prestige = expense (to these people)
I can't imagine $30,000+ just for tuition... for ONE year of college. I can't even wrap my mind around that figure.
I guess money is no object for some..... - Issius, on 10/28/2008, -0/+10If it makes you feel any better, I'm being raped too. I'm sure that didn't help as much as I thought it did now that I think about it...
- LemonDefragger, on 10/28/2008, -1/+11My college made it! Hooray?
- RedStormRising, on 10/28/2008, -2/+11Yeah, but they only accept a certain amount of kids, and odds are for those Ivy League colleges you would have to have a rich daddy 'pay for the dean's consideration' (AKA Bribe) upwards in the hundred thousands, on top of the tuition. Just look at Bush and his Yale years.
- bpwned, on 10/28/2008, -0/+91200€ a year (and I'm studying physics and get to play with all the fancy gadgets like particle accelerators, nuclear reactor and still pay as much as someone who only needs books to learn his stuff) in Munich, Germany. Being a country without any resources I still think that's too much though. After all, all we have is our brains...
- bongfarmer, on 10/28/2008, -1/+10spelling correctly is beocming more and more irrelevant. One of the most brilliant profs I've met uses his own maveric rules of syntax and grammer. As long as it doesn't obscure clarity theres just the stigma of not looking professional, and most academics couldn't care less. The more a prof cares about spelling = the less important the ideas and context are
And yes, $5000 is way to much. People are pissed. There are still people who can't go because of financial reasons(althou we have a great scholorship and work study program they may not know about). Community college for 2 years is an option(Bus fare can cost more than tuition). The university makes tonnes of money from research(undergrad labs usually get hand-me down equipment) and has hundreds of millions in surplus
UBC>McGill for a lot of reasons. Gorgeous student freindly city, nude beach on campus, student season pass to whistler is about $400, etc. it matters what you value, I've never been to mcgill and people tell me its great too, you wouldn't regret going to UBC thou - jeltringham, on 10/28/2008, -2/+11"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
- Inoeth, on 10/28/2008, -1/+10great quote. the price of college is indeed insane, however, i'd rather be in debt for a few years and have it eventually pay off than have to work two or three jobs at minimum wage because i dropped out of school
- darkstar949, on 10/28/2008, -0/+8So assuming that it only takes four years to get your degree, it will cost about $200,000 for your degree?
Ouch, depending upon where you are in the country that is enough to buy a house out right or such a small mortgage that you will be done paying it off in a couple of years. - PubStomp, on 10/28/2008, -1/+9***** out-of-state tuition is ridiculous
- john2kx, on 10/28/2008, -0/+8"why take calculus if your learning to build computers?"
Wow.. I take it you're not a computer engineer? - Bogo, on 10/28/2008, -0/+8NorthMass,
Schools don't operate like regular businesses do.
If cost went down to a third, schools would be forced to reduce staff, services, and facilities by two-thirds, if not more. - inactive, on 10/28/2008, -5/+13A good option is to take two years at a community college, then transfer to an In-State college. I went that route, and will graduate broke, but debt free. I work part-time and have the rest paid with scholarships.
A lot of my friends went off to expensive 4-year colleges, then had to come back to the local community college when the loan money dried up. I can't imagine having $20,000 in debt looming over my head.......I'd go nuts.
American News Project video: College Debt 101
http://newsproject.org/node/157 - efitz11, on 10/28/2008, -1/+9Yay for going in-state and paying $13k a year for everything
- Lucas123, on 10/27/2008, -2/+9College tuition: The ultimate in sticker shock.
Wait, Haaavard isn't on that list? Could it be that Harvard is a bargain in today's market?
http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/cost.htm - SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/28/2008, -1/+8Something like 80% of people who attend community college with the idea of transferring to a university later never actually do. That is an entirely real number.
To each his own, but, for my money, I'm glad to have spent a few extra thousand dollars to actually go away to school my first two years. There is a profound difference in maturity and overall personal growth that I notice between those I know from high school who went away to college and those who stayed home to attend community college. I've learned more than I probably even realize about living on my own and being a full time student, and I'm glad I don't have to face those challenges now that I'm actually getting into the much more demanding curriculum of my degree.
I guess money is money, but there is plenty to be said for those first two years spent at a university. I know a number of people who, some of them after telling me I was throwing my money away be skipping out on community college, have actually ended up wasting time on the order of years and money on the order of thousands at community college without any real direction and now regret it and are planning on just going away to school where none of those credits will count anyway. For these reasons I tell anyone who asks me to, yes, absolutely go to away to school your first two years if you can afford it.
Just my two cents. - inactive, on 10/28/2008, -2/+9Its a Business
- Konrad9, on 10/28/2008, -0/+7My tuition went up $5k+ because the new president wants to make us an "ivy league" school.
- alexkball, on 10/28/2008, -1/+8a) I didn't know they added pompous self-satisfaction as a major back at Cal, my alma mater.
b) if Berkeley is cheaper than these schools for you, it means you are from California, which means you pay in-state tuition, which also means it was easier for you to gain admission than it was for a good number of your peers.
Berkeley's website lists tuition and fees in a nice table, then below it, in small font, shielded with a double asterisk is the disclaimer: "add $20,607.50 for non-residents"
So don't tell me it's not expensive. - versualize, on 10/28/2008, -0/+7Not a single Ivy in the top 25. In addition to Harvard, UPenn added a ridiculously awesome financial aid program. Students whose families make less than 70k get full tuition and those whose families make less than 140k get serious financial aid packages. While it's true that there's a ton of rich kids here, it's not all rich kids in the Ivies. Good to see they're making progress.
- BN89, on 10/28/2008, -1/+7Yes, but when you graduate from a college of such caliber, you're likely to make back that 200,000 sooner rather than later.
- BN89, on 10/28/2008, -0/+6Except when you go to a state school when you're not from that state (Ann Arbor) it's not all that cheap.
- PabloIV, on 10/28/2008, -1/+7You wanna hear about the other side of the spectrum?
I went to the University of Puerto Rico. $400 a semester $3200 for my entire bachelor's - Dalhectar, on 10/28/2008, -2/+8College tuition is one area where Federal involvement has increased price. Tuition Aid as currently designed distorts the market. Give a student an extra $5K for school, and you can expect the price of the college to go up substantially becuase the colleges know the students will pay more for school.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3344
College education is like any other market, and one sure way to keep prices down is to increase the supply (thus more competition for students). In the long run, I think the government should fund either the expansion or creation of more schools rather than placing so much money into direct tuition aid. With the supply of college education going up, prices should fall.
Really it's basic Econ 101 supply/demand curve stuff. But I'd hate to be the politician who actually proposes reducing government student aide. - disparue, on 10/28/2008, -0/+6When you go to college, you're not only paying for the education, but also the networking possibilities that go along with it.
- DirectTulip, on 10/27/2008, -2/+8I have no idea. I never heard of them either.
- RedStormRising, on 10/28/2008, -7/+13Yay! Either stay at a high school education level, or suffer crippling debt from student loans the rest of your life. The choices are great.
- DrDragun, on 10/28/2008, -0/+6Well, prestigious schools turn down about 75% of applicants, so they can charge whatever the hell they want. As long as the line to get in is 4x longer than the number of available openings I don't see why they would lower their price.
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