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>$160,000 tuition bill per child This is the approximate tuition for 4 years at Harvard (@ $40k/year), and not at all representative of the the real cost of un
by ac29 10y ago
>$160,000 tuition bill per child
This is the approximate tuition for 4 years at Harvard (@ $40k/year), and not at all representative of the the real cost of university degrees in the US. Tuition at state schools, which are often quite good, is much less. CSU schools, where I went to school, estimate total cost of attendance at about $25k/year [0] split roughly evenly between school costs and living costs... on the high end (less if you live with family, or in a lower cost area of California). Anecdotally, I can verify these numbers.
Unless you are a very high net worth family, $160k for college tuition is overpriced.
[0] http://www.calstate.edu/sas/costofattendance/ http://www.calstate.edu/sas/costofattendance/
- 11thEarlOfMar 10y agoI wrote 'tuition' but was talking about 'total cost', which is what matters. Harvard is $65,000 | $260,000 [0] I'm paying for UC Davis, $35,000 | $140,000 [1] My next kid wants to go to Loyola Marymount, $63,000 | $252,000 [2] Average student loan debt in 2005 was $15,600 Average student loan dept in 2016 was $37,000 [3] [0] https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/cost-attendance https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/cost... [1] https://www.ucdavis.edu/admissions/cost/ https://www.ucdavis.edu/admissions/cost/ [2] http://financialaid.lmu.edu/generalinformation/costofattendance/ http://financialaid.lmu.edu/generalinformation/costofattenda... [3] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/congrats-class-of-2016-youre-the-most-indebted-yet/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/congrats-class-of-2016-youre-the...
- actsasbuffoon 10y agoStudent loan debt often exceeds $100k for people with post graduate degrees.