I am floored looking around at South Carolina's in state tuition. What is tuition like in your state at the major universities?
Post ONLY THE TUITION FOR ONE YEAR (2 major semesters)... round accordingly.
SC In State Tuition:
Clemson: $10,000
USC: $9,000
Winthrop: $10,000
College of Charleston: $15,000
USC Upstate: $7,000
Wofford: $24,000
Coastal Carolina: $8,000
I was floored to see that I could undercut the cheapest one of those by nearly HALF at a slew of colleges in NC. Hell, I could attend Georgia Tech in-state for less than College of Charleston in-state. WTF????
where did you find the numbers? The only site I found you have to pay...
Totals for one year, Not that it matters, but some of the colleges in Ohio are on a Quarter System
Akron $ 8,000
Bowling Green $16,000
Cleveland St $16,000
Central St $6,000
Cincinnati $23,000
Kent St $6,000
Miami (Ohio) $22,000
Ohio St $26,000
Ohio $6,000
Toledo $7,000
Shawnee St $7,000
Wright St $9,000
Youngstown St 7,000
Terpy Wrote:where did you find the numbers? The only site I found you have to pay...
Go to each .edu site ... then go to the prospective student page... look for a "tuition and fees" or "costs" link.
dang thats gonna take forever
At The University of Texas, there's a flat rate tuition for Undergraduates which depends on what College you're in.
Flat Tuition Rate Scale
The most expensive flat tuition rate runs around $6300 per year.
I must note that when I attended school there, it was $4 per semester hour and didn't even run someone $100 to go to UT for a full year. It later increased to $16 per semester hour when I finally graduated.
I don't see that as high, GTS. I mean, damn. 9K a year? As in 4500 a semester? That's not bad.
I would like to know this though, why is it that liberal states and colleges/universities have the highest tuition?
I just looked at Gettysburg, 33,000 per year and that didnt even include room and board.
Terpy Wrote:I just looked at Gettysburg, 33,000 per year and that didnt even include room and board.
Check out Millsaps College in Jackson, Ms. Not as much, well, it didn't used to be, but it's apparently one of the finest Liberal Arts private schools in the nation.....if there is such a thing.
Life (Lottery) Scholarship only covers $5,000/yr here in SC. In fact, since the Lottery Scholarship started, it's amazing that tuition skyrocketed.
So if I'm the very best HS student in SC, I can attend USC or Clemson for about $5,000/yr.
If I'm the very best HS student in GA, I can attend Georgia Tech for free.
georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:Life (Lottery) Scholarship only covers $5,000/yr here in SC. In fact, since the Lottery Scholarship started, it's amazing that tuition skyrocketed.
So if I'm the very best HS student in SC, I can attend USC or Clemson for about $5,000/yr.
If I'm the very best HS student in GA, I can attend Georgia Tech for free.
Well, hell, Lord forbid you have to spend a little cash to invest in your future.
I got an idea, let's make college free. If the liberal professors won't work for free, which I seriously doubt because they are f'n hypocrites, we can always tax the hell out of the upper income. As we all should know, flooding the economy with degreed personnel will only increase the value of the degree.
Then again, that could be
ECU is 2335 a year, which is about 3 times what it was when I enrolled.
Appy State is 4081.
UNC-CH is 2516.54, though they have asked the state for permission to charge whatever they want a couple of times.
NCSU is 2391.
That's all I'm looking at. NC has a gazillion public universities and most will fall in the same range.
ucbearcat4ever Wrote:Totals for one year, Not that it matters, but some of the colleges in Ohio are on a Quarter System
Akron $ 8,000
Bowling Green $16,000
Cleveland St $16,000
Central St $6,000
Cincinnati $23,000
Kent St $6,000
Miami (Ohio) $22,000
Ohio St $26,000
Ohio $6,000
Toledo $7,000
Shawnee St $7,000
Wright St $9,000
Youngstown St 7,000
$16K for BG, $26K for Zero St? That's not just tuition is it? That's got to be all expenses.
Also, I believe that Miami gives out an in-state scholarship to
everyone of some minimum value. And it can go up depending on your major.
A number of those include room and board, but I'm not sure if all of those prices do.
UC is not $23K for tuition only. I also don't believe Wright State is only $9K with room and board. I'd put UC in the $12K tuition only range each year. OSU and Miami would be in the same range as well.
RebelKev Wrote:I don't see that as high, GTS. I mean, damn. 9K a year? As in 4500 a semester? That's not bad.
That's pushing it from my perspective.
I'd say 6000-6500 is a pretty fair tuition rate for in-state. That doesn't count room&board, books, etc.
Quote:I would like to know this though, why is it that liberal states and colleges/universities have the highest tuition?
Because they have to subsidize the "underprivileged" who can't afford it. Of course the truly wealthy aren't phased by this, so the only ones who suffer are the middle class.
And they say that conservatives squeeze the middle class.
Ohio has one of the highest tuition rates and it is not liberal in the least. I don't think that statement stands up.
mlb Wrote:A number of those include room and board, but I'm not sure if all of those prices do.
UC is not $23K for tuition only. I also don't believe Wright State is only $9K with room and board. I'd put UC in the $12K tuition only range each year. OSU and Miami would be in the same range as well.
The Fees are included in the price too.
If the university listed what it costs for a commuter that the price that I listed
For a Communter to attend Wright it is: $8,778
ucbearcat4ever Wrote:Totals for one year, Not that it matters, but some of the colleges in Ohio are on a Quarter System
Akron $ 8,000
Bowling Green $16,000
Cleveland St $16,000
Central St $6,000
Cincinnati $23,000
Kent St $6,000
Miami (Ohio) $22,000
Ohio St $26,000
Ohio $6,000
Toledo $7,000
Shawnee St $7,000
Wright St $9,000
Youngstown St 7,000
Your numbers are off. Where did you get them?
Here is Kent State:
Tuition and fees:
$8,430 in-state, $15,862 out-of-state
Room/board:
$6,880
Here is UC:
Tuition and Fees (2006-07):
Ohio Resident, undergraduate, per year: $ 9,399
Out of State, undergraduate, per year: $23,922
Ohio Resident, graduate, per year: $11,661
Out of State, graduate, per year: $21,495
Room & Board, per year: $ 8,286
According to their website, BG is approx. $10,000 for tuition and fees.
I'm not going to bother looking up any more, but it's clear the above list makes no sense.
OSU Tulsa minus the fees is only like for 12 hours like $1306.
RebelKev Wrote:Well, hell, Lord forbid you have to spend a little cash to invest in your future.
I got an idea, let's make college free. If the liberal professors won't work for free, which I seriously doubt because they are f'n hypocrites, we can always tax the hell out of the upper income. As we all should know, flooding the economy with degreed personnel will only increase the value of the degree.
Then again, that could be
I'm basing my assessment on two things:
1) Status of neighboring states (FL, GA, NC)
2) Tuition difference before and after the lottery scholarship began.
On the first one ... I can attend ECU, NCSU, UNC-CH, ASU, etc for roughly half the cost to attend USC Upstate ($7,000/yr ... crappy school unless you're a nurse). In GA, Hope Scholarship makes it a free ride at most places. When I started attending USC, I had a free ride. Now I'm less than happy that in 3 years tuition has gone up so fast that I can't even get a large enough federal loan to cover things, and I'm now dipping into the private sector. That is a load of bull****.
It may not be fair, but there really isnt jack you can do about it. As long as you are attending school your official residency is your parents. Even if you yourself were to move to NC or GA you would still officially be a resident of SC. A friend of mine who lives in Maryland was accepted into UMCP and the summer after he graduated high school his parents moved to Arizona, he never has and never will live in Arizona but he has to be out of state tuition because that is where his parents live. Another friend of mine is a grad student at UMCP, he has lived in College Park, MD for close to three years, his parents are from Pittsburgh, and even though he hasnt lived in Pittsburgh for nearly 7 years as far as the university (and the Federal Government for that matter) is concerned he is a resident of Pittsburgh. He even has to pay Pittsburgh and PA taxes!
I went to private school so none of this really concerned me all that much but it is a load of crap that if someone lives where I grew up in Maryland they are probably closer to the University of Delaware than they are the University of Maryland but it is going to cost them a lot more to go to Delaware because it is out of state.
Terpy Wrote:It may not be fair, but there really isnt jack you can do about it. As long as you are attending school your official residency is your parents. Even if you yourself were to move to NC or GA you would still officially be a resident of SC. A friend of mine who lives in Maryland was accepted into UMCP and the summer after he graduated high school his parents moved to Arizona, he never has and never will live in Arizona but he has to be out of state tuition because that is where his parents live. Another friend of mine is a grad student at UMCP, he has lived in College Park, MD for close to three years, his parents are from Pittsburgh, and even though he hasnt lived in Pittsburgh for nearly 7 years as far as the university (and the Federal Government for that matter) is concerned he is a resident of Pittsburgh. He even has to pay Pittsburgh and PA taxes!
You can get around this, you simply move out on your own and stop being a dependent on your parents. It's not like the financial aid just flows in, however, you can fight to be considered an in state resident.
I had my best friend whose parents moved to MO from Ohio his sophomore year at Ohio St. He stayed in Columbus and paid in-state tuition his entire run.
But, I do find it criminal that universities will do their damndest to call a person out of state. I have a friend whose parents moved from Oregon to Calif after she graduated from HS. Suddenly UO was calling her out of state, and of course California didn't consider her a resident. That indeed is bullspit.
2006-2007
Eastern IL: 6,500/ year
IL State: 7,200/ year
Northern IL: 6,700/ year
Western IL: 4,900/ year
Southern IL Carbondale: 7,800/ year
Southern IL Edwardsville: 6,000/ year
Univ IL Champaign: 9,500/ year
Univ IL Springfield: 5,900
Univ IL Chicago: 6,780/ year
thats just tuition, not room and board or fees
georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:Life (Lottery) Scholarship only covers $5,000/yr here in SC. In fact, since the Lottery Scholarship started, it's amazing that tuition skyrocketed.
So if I'm the very best HS student in SC, I can attend USC or Clemson for about $5,000/yr.
If I'm the very best HS student in GA, I can attend Georgia Tech for free.
my GA state income tax at work!
semester at OSU Tulsa is $2200.
OSU Stillwater is the same.
sparkomemphis Wrote:georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:Life (Lottery) Scholarship only covers $5,000/yr here in SC. In fact, since the Lottery Scholarship started, it's amazing that tuition skyrocketed.
So if I'm the very best HS student in SC, I can attend USC or Clemson for about $5,000/yr.
If I'm the very best HS student in GA, I can attend Georgia Tech for free.
my GA state income tax at work!
HOPE is funded by the Georgia State Lottery.
I hear the Cincinnati degree is worth more every time tuition costs go up. Lol, damn $23,000? Ridiculous!!!!!!!!