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UIUC instate total cost is 30k a year, including room/board. If you're working full time and living a poverty lifestyle you can graduate debt free easily enough
by colinmhayes 5y ago
UIUC instate total cost is 30k a year, including room/board. If you're working full time and living a poverty lifestyle you can graduate debt free easily enough, especially if you get prestigious internships.
- aidenn0 5y agoNot sure about UIUC, but $3600 in in-state tuition for Purdue in 1999; ~$10k including room/board/books. Out of state was $8k more. Purdue froze the in-state tuition at $10k some years ago, but did so by reducing the number of in-state students that were admitted; they need far more out-of-state (and out-of-country) students to subsidize that each year.
- ishjoh 5y agoI'm happy you included that, my alma matter has also turned to this, the percentage of out of country compared to in state has changed drastically since I went there. I feel bad for the kids applying who in years passed would have been accepted but now aren't because of these perverse incentives.
- aidenn0 5y agoI wouldn't wish having to work full-time while doing undergrad on anybody.
- notJim 5y agoI worked 20 hrs a week steadily while getting my degree and it was pretty difficult. Working full time would be super hard. You would also miss a lot of the other benefits of the school because you’d be at work all the time. If someone could work part time and graduate with a minor amount of debt, that would be far better IMO.