Its seems now a days that college tution costs are at extreme highs.
I was looking into UM the other day, its about $46,000 a year. By the end of your fourth year you owe approximately 1/4 of a million dollars, thats including a place to stay, food, books, etc...
Many college students main concern is to pay for college, when they should actually be worrying about the classes and grades they need to get.
Why is it that college tuition rates vary so much? Why should one school be worth so much more than another?? Yeah maybe reputation, but at the end of the day dont you get the same degree?
Actually, lab fees and technology fees are often extra.
I heard a statistic that big name schools such as Harvard may make enough in donations to give half their students a free ride. I heard this in class, so I can't site it, but I will try to find it and post a link. Frankly, I didn't think the extra tuition was worth it. I went to an in-state, public school, and am getting a good education. It's also a good school to go to if you plan on going to Grad School.
I think I know why college tuition is high; why they're high is because they also use the income for other things like technology uses, laboratory uses, and student activities at a college.
The worst part is that the colleges don't even need that much money. Most of the schools with sky-high tuitions have endowments the size of Texas. It is merely a greed/publicity thing. If a school costs fifty thousand a year it must be a good school, right? Nah.
i know- its crazy!! i didnt even get any financial aid or calgrant!! theres no way i can pay for it, and the only scholarship i got was $500!! im soo screwed!!
That reputation often follows the degree, but I see your point. It seems ludicrous to me that we need to pay for college at all, but that is how the system is geared. Unlimited spending towards war and military, and colleges get pretty much nothing.