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in states with good public universities, the best value is 2 years at a good community college, then 2 years at the state school. even 2 years at a good state u
by clairity 7y ago
in states with good public universities, the best value is 2 years at a good community college, then 2 years at the state school. even 2 years at a good state university is getting ridiculously expensive ($60K+).
- thelean12 7y agoWhat state schools are $60k+ for 2 years for in-state residents? Berkeley was my guess for an expensive in-state tuition rate and they're $38k for 2 years. Unless you're including housing/food/etc.
- clairity 7y agoyes, total cost, as that's the truer measure.
- thelean12 7y agoCertainly not an option for everyone, but a ton of people in my state school class still lived at home. A good percentage could have lived at home but chose not to. It's also hard for me to include housing because you'd need housing no matter what path in life you choose.
- clairity 7y agothat's true, but that ignores opportunities/opportunity costs, which would cover housing/food in an alternate scenario.
- colinmhayes 7y agoUIUC is 25k a year just tuition and fees. Expensive college town room & board plus opportunity cost of education instead of working easily gets you to 30k a year.
- mrlala 7y agoHoly shit it's that expensive now?? Graduated from there about 15 years ago and it was maybe 8-10k a year..
- colinmhayes 7y agoThe state cut all funding under the last governor so they had some major issues.
- arkis22 7y agoBe careful. Rauner cut 400 million for education during a year he could make a budget with legislators. Pat Quinn cut education spending by 340 million during a year when he got to write the budget himself because the legislature couldn't pass one.
- colinmhayes 7y agoThe legislature passed a budget every year under Rauner, he refused to sign it because he wanted anti-union runners. Agreed it's been a long time coming though, definitely not just Rauner's fault.
- areyousure 7y agohttps://admissions.illinois.edu/invest/tuition https://admissions.illinois.edu/invest/tuition "Following are our estimated expenses for 2020-2021. Illinois Resident Tuition & Fees: $16,862-$21,956"
- colinmhayes 7y agoPlus 3700 in fees
- areyousure 7y agoMy apologies for not quoting it originally, but it literally says "Tuition & Fees".
- yardie 7y agoFrom others experience it's 2 years at good community college and 2.5-3 years at the good state university. I've yet to see state college take all the credits from a transfer.
- clairity 7y agoadmittedly i don't have first-hand experience in this, but my understanding from friends & family here in CA is that limiting time at a state university to 2 years (and sometimes less) is entirely possible, with some planning. the confounding factor for young adults, i suppose, is that it's hard to be certain enough about future interests amid all the possibilities not yet forgone to stay the course without (understandable) alteration (i changed course a few times in college myself).