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Undergraduate tuition at Duke starts at $65,000 USD/year. It shouldn't come at any surprise that a lot of spoiled kids who are funded by the International Bank
by roadbuster 1y ago
Undergraduate tuition at Duke starts at $65,000 USD/year. It shouldn't come at any surprise that a lot of spoiled kids who are funded by the International Bank of Mommy & Daddy are apathetic and wasteful.
From: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/duke-university https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
"The median family income for a Duke student is $186,700. A significant portion of Duke students, 69%, come from families in the top 20% of earners, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Additionally, only 1.6% of students come from low-income backgrounds"
- bluGill 1y ago> Undergraduate tuition at Duke starts at $65,000 USD/year. Does it? I don't know anything about Duke, but a lot of colleges I know of tell your tuition is around that price. However dig deeper and you discover it is almost impossible to not get scholarships thus making the real price cheaper. I know of one school near me that automatically gives everyone a 40% scholarship, then they look at your background to figure out if you qualify for anything more.
- dylan604 1y agoThen why not just lower the tuition by 40%?
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoi wonder if universities can write off the "loss" of granting scholarships for inflated tuition rates? that said, scholarships come from all over, so if you're getting scholarships from outside the school itself, the school is getting all that money.
- sgerenser 1y agoNope theres no “write off”, universities generally aren’t for-profit and thus don’t pay income taxes. Even in the case of a for-profit enterprise, if a company foregoes income it’s just less income coming in, there’s no extra “write off” on top of (obviously) not paying taxes on the foregone income.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoThanks! I had no idea.
- thinkcontext 1y agoBecause the really rich and international do pay full cost which means they can lower it for lower income students.
- LanceH 1y agoReally rich isn't that high a bar, you'll find out when it comes to tuition.
- bluGill 1y agoBecause they can compete on how exclusive they are because of their costs. There is no downside to a high price as parents now ask what financial aid they can get before looking at price. There is a lot of upside in seeming exclusive - even though if you don't live close to me you have probably never heard of this college
- gosub100 1y agowhy are you asking instead of verifying the claim yourself?
- bluGill 1y agoI don't know how to verify the claim since I'm not a serious potential student.