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I wish this happened in US. The fee part, not the paid to read part :)

by subhro 12y ago

Igglyboo 12y ago
I go to Oakland University in Michigan and we are the only University in the state(country?) to charge no fees. Tuition is still high but that is usually set by the state.
- pmr_ 12y ago
  There seems to be a confusion of words here. You seem to make a difference between tuition and tuition fees while the Wikipedia [1] article suggests that those terms mean the same in different English dialects. As for Germany: almost all public Universities still take fees (usually around 100 Euros per semester, tax refundable). Tuition was a new thing and is what has been abandoned again. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_payments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_payments
  - Igglyboo 12y ago
    Wikipedia is wrong, most university's in the US have tuition(paid specifically based on how many classes you have) and fees(flat fee for everyone, not based on how many classes you have).
- valarauca1 12y ago
  What is Oakland's Rough cost per semester? I live in the area and attend their security conferences from the outside looking in it seems like a decent school. I already work as an software developer but a degree doesn't hurt my career options.
  - Igglyboo 12y ago
    About ~6k a semester, assuming 16 credit hours. The university also gave me a ton of grant money for good grades/ACT score in HS. It's a pretty nice school honestly, I think a lot of people in the area look down at it because it's mostly a commuter school but it's comparable to MSU in quality of education and way cheaper.
zura 12y ago
Is price significant for public/state universities as well in US?
- cdash 12y ago
  Yes, you end up paying 20k a year instead of 40k a year.
- waterlesscloud 12y ago
  It used to be pretty reasonable. When I attended Ga Tech (a state school) a couple decades ago, it was a few thousand a year to cover tuition, books, food, dorms. I can't remember tuition exactly, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $1500-1800 a year. (By comparison, MIT and Harvard were in the neighborhood of $16,000 a year at the time). Then there was a period where Georgia had a lottery-funded scholarship that would cover your tuition fully at state schools if you kept a good GPA. I've heard in recent years that it's slipped due to declining lottery revenues, but I'm not sure. Looking now, I see it's $9,000 a year just for tuition. An estimated $25,000 per year overall. Big increase, though it has been a long time. That's a lot of money for in-state attendance. When I went it wasn't really a burden on most people to cover their kid's cost at Ga state schools. Now I think it really would be.
  - caw 12y ago
    The HOPE scholarship used to pay full in-state tuition for full time students. It pays a bit less now, and that started around 2009, though they grandfathered in existing HOPE scholarship students. Program rules: https://www.gacollege411.org/Financial_Aid_Planning/HOPE_Program/Georgia_s_HOPE_Scholarship_Program_Overview.aspx https://www.gacollege411.org/Financial_Aid_Planning/HOPE_Pro... Payouts based on credit hours taken: http://www.gsfc.org/main/publishing/pdf/2012/hope_award_amounts.pdf http://www.gsfc.org/main/publishing/pdf/2012/hope_award_amou... There's still a gap though, because of how GT's tuition works. The cost for under 6 hours is $2,675, and the cost for more than 6 credit hours is $4,501. The highest HOPE payment is $3,390, leaving you to pay roughly $1200 a semester if you take 15 credit hours. If you only take 12 hours (more realistic for GT students, particularly in later years), the state picks up $2,712, leaving you with $1800 a semester to pay for. Of course this is tuition only. There's still mandatory fees of over $1100 (this has increased a lot since I was there, I seem to remember $500 or so) and optional fees, as well as dorms & food plans.
dominotw 12y ago
I finished my grad degree for under $10,000 with instate tuition at a state institution.
- jessaustin 12y ago
  When was this? What was the price for your undergrad?
  - dominotw 12y ago
    in 2003. University of alabama.

I wish this happened in US. The fee part, not the paid to read part :)

by subhro 12y ago

I wish this happened in US. The fee part, not the paid to read part :)

I go to Oakland University in Michigan and we are the only University in the state(country?) to charge no fees. Tuition is still high but that is usually set by the state.

pmr_ 12y ago
There seems to be a confusion of words here. You seem to make a difference between tuition and tuition fees while the Wikipedia [1] article suggests that those terms mean the same in different English dialects. As for Germany: almost all public Universities still take fees (usually around 100 Euros per semester, tax refundable). Tuition was a new thing and is what has been abandoned again. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_payments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_payments
- Igglyboo 12y ago
  Wikipedia is wrong, most university's in the US have tuition(paid specifically based on how many classes you have) and fees(flat fee for everyone, not based on how many classes you have).
valarauca1 12y ago
What is Oakland's Rough cost per semester? I live in the area and attend their security conferences from the outside looking in it seems like a decent school. I already work as an software developer but a degree doesn't hurt my career options.
- Igglyboo 12y ago
  About ~6k a semester, assuming 16 credit hours. The university also gave me a ton of grant money for good grades/ACT score in HS. It's a pretty nice school honestly, I think a lot of people in the area look down at it because it's mostly a commuter school but it's comparable to MSU in quality of education and way cheaper.

zura 12y ago

Is price significant for public/state universities as well in US?

cdash 12y ago
Yes, you end up paying 20k a year instead of 40k a year.
waterlesscloud 12y ago
It used to be pretty reasonable. When I attended Ga Tech (a state school) a couple decades ago, it was a few thousand a year to cover tuition, books, food, dorms. I can't remember tuition exactly, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $1500-1800 a year. (By comparison, MIT and Harvard were in the neighborhood of $16,000 a year at the time). Then there was a period where Georgia had a lottery-funded scholarship that would cover your tuition fully at state schools if you kept a good GPA. I've heard in recent years that it's slipped due to declining lottery revenues, but I'm not sure. Looking now, I see it's $9,000 a year just for tuition. An estimated $25,000 per year overall. Big increase, though it has been a long time. That's a lot of money for in-state attendance. When I went it wasn't really a burden on most people to cover their kid's cost at Ga state schools. Now I think it really would be.
- caw 12y ago
  The HOPE scholarship used to pay full in-state tuition for full time students. It pays a bit less now, and that started around 2009, though they grandfathered in existing HOPE scholarship students. Program rules: https://www.gacollege411.org/Financial_Aid_Planning/HOPE_Program/Georgia_s_HOPE_Scholarship_Program_Overview.aspx https://www.gacollege411.org/Financial_Aid_Planning/HOPE_Pro... Payouts based on credit hours taken: http://www.gsfc.org/main/publishing/pdf/2012/hope_award_amounts.pdf http://www.gsfc.org/main/publishing/pdf/2012/hope_award_amou... There's still a gap though, because of how GT's tuition works. The cost for under 6 hours is $2,675, and the cost for more than 6 credit hours is $4,501. The highest HOPE payment is $3,390, leaving you to pay roughly $1200 a semester if you take 15 credit hours. If you only take 12 hours (more realistic for GT students, particularly in later years), the state picks up $2,712, leaving you with $1800 a semester to pay for. Of course this is tuition only. There's still mandatory fees of over $1100 (this has increased a lot since I was there, I seem to remember $500 or so) and optional fees, as well as dorms & food plans.

dominotw 12y ago

I finished my grad degree for under $10,000 with instate tuition at a state institution.

jessaustin 12y ago
When was this? What was the price for your undergrad?
- dominotw 12y ago
  in 2003. University of alabama.