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> Even a "model" student buying his books new each semester your total costs for a public school caps at 40k a year[0] To be fair to the parent poster, ~30% o
by com2kid 9y ago
> Even a "model" student buying his books new each semester your total costs for a public school caps at 40k a year[0]
To be fair to the parent poster, ~30% of a public university's funding comes from taxes[0]. Add in tax breaks on the huge amounts of often urban land situated on prime real estate, and the overall cost to society is higher than just the tuition price.
[0]http://uwimpact.org/uw-funding-overview/ http://uwimpact.org/uw-funding-overview/
- lordCarbonFiber 9y agoIf we start to factor in "costs to society" then you have to also consider RoI to society in the form of wider access to education. Both are diffuse and difficult to measure which is why, rightly imo, they're excluded from most amateur discussions. Considering the number of universities that are in the middle of nowhere, so much so that the idea of the "college town" is a thing, Im a little incredulous as to the real costs from that use of "prime real-estate" in a holistic sense.