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You're looking at tuition increases. Food, Housing, Books, etc. have also increased in varying amounts.
by fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
You're looking at tuition increases. Food, Housing, Books, etc. have also increased in varying amounts.
- Alex3917 13y agoFair enough. But the average net tuition at public universities is only $4,900 per year. Assuming you make $10 per hour at a summer job, that works out to exactly 40 hours per week over the summer. Obviously there are still other expenses and considerations, but tuition itself isn't especially unreasonable. The bigger issues are the fact that education you'll receive is likely complete garbage, your degree won't be worth anything, and wages of the middle class have been decreasing for decades.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y ago> Assuming you make $10 per hour at a summer job Do you mean $10 per hour over the cost of living/driving/eating/etc ? >The bigger issues are the fact that education you'll receive is likely complete garbage The lectures are the same, the bar has been lowered too much.
- philwelch 13y agoFood and housing are both a scam, depending on the school--where I went, it was significantly more cost effective to get these things from the free market than to live and eat on campus. Textbooks are also a scam. Often you could buy international editions but god help you if you were assigned problem sets.