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Tuition + fees (possibly + books, but that is highly variable from term to term and generally substantially less than tuition) is the correct way to evaluate th
by elehack 9y ago
Tuition + fees (possibly + books, but that is highly variable from term to term and generally substantially less than tuition) is the correct way to evaluate the cost of higher education. Room & board is generally optional at state schools (there are a few exceptions).
My institution's in-state tuition + fees are about $9K/year. The TX state university I taught at for two years was similar.
- brooklyn_ashey 9y agoBut see, then there is the key point: college grads just aren't getting work. The Bachelor's degree isn't even as useful as the HS diploma used to be in the 1970s. The big difference now is the debt one is saddled with after all three degrees up to the PHD and then a tacked on bootcamp so you can be over-skilled to do underpaid, stupid work at a food delivery uber-for-kittens app in a youth-andro-monoculture setting. (but you will only get this precious job if you are really young, a dude, white, and love craft beer, complicated facial hair, and being really really positive about everything and using the word passionate as much as humanly possible in every sentence.)