How much you paying (or use to pay) for your tuition?

[jinglingxl]

I'm paying roughly 12k/yr, but im not paying any cash out of my pocket with 2 loans. hope college is a good investment

 

[Duckers]

-$1

 

[Regine]

Me - nothing.
Parents - way too much
Actually it's about 10k/year, that's for everything though.

 

[NFS4]

~8k with room and board

 

[Napalm381]

Nothing personally. I think the rate here for just tuition is about 1400 per semester for in-state.

 

[RaDragon]

tuition was around 17.5K per annum. thank goodness for education grants, though. those grants paid for 75% of the tuition pie

 

[aurasing]

i get free tuition...but i'm paying 600 bucks/month for rent, then there's electricity, phone, groceries, etc. i think it would have been cheaper if i got someone to pay for my living expenses, and i'd just pay for my tuition!

 

[fishy101]

aurasing, for $600/month, you must be living either in Bay Area or NY! Tuition + everything else here is about $14/year, and but loans and grants cover most of it.

 

[Viper Frag]

27K pretty soon once I start.
Thats without loans and grants, hopefully I get some or else I'm gonna be in big trouble.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

Zero.

The state paid for my 2 years Computer Engineering courses. Even my A+ certification.

Now, I work for the college which I get a free class per semester and they'll pay for my MCSE, N+ and CCNA fees.

Gonna love college life.

 

[froggy]

Private university.....$240 per semester hour. Roughly $10K per year.

 

[ChrichtonsGirl]

In 1985, my University of Wisconsin-Madison tuition was $679 per semester, with another $200 or so for books. I'm sure it's gone up since then. My brother went to UW-Milwaukee's school of Engineering and he's got a student loan of $20K he's repaying (he worked the whole time he was in school, so after scholarships and grants and his salary, that's what was left).

 

[Mday]

let's see, this semester is $500 for books, and what, $500 for transportation... $ 1000 for food. i commute...

if i live on campus, it'd be $8000 for this semester (nyc is a pain), and books would still be $500... and maybe $1000 for books too, and $100 for transportation...

 

[BA]

-$776(yes, that is a negative) Being a National Merit Scholar's nice

 

[BlueAidan]

I've got 100% tuition assistance, plus $250 a month from the Montgomery GI Bill. Fun stuff!

BlueAidan

 

[shopbruin]

My parents pay for it all and my scholarships refuse to kick in.

Public school in CA: little over 4k tuition
because i wanted the expensive dorms with my own bathroom: 9k

total... 13k for just tuition and room and board, add another 1k for books. *sigh*

 

[cxim]

$15 per semester Hr,

then they raised it to $17

then it was discounted to $5 for doing office programming on the PDP9 for the school...

Then Jimmy Carter got elected President & the economy went to hell.

 

[Capn]

well I don't pay anything, but the school's package plus a large outside scholarship pays the ~34k/yr for me.

 

[sciencewhiz]

$11 per semester hour * 15 units + $250 for books = $365 for this sememster

I love California's community colleges

 

[mosdef]

~$5500/yr @ state university thanks to scholarships

-mosdef

 

[Igor]

Used to be $20k a year for undergrad in a private college
with about 80% covered by grants. Now it's $2500 for class , 2 classes a quarter x3 quarters=$15 k a year grad school

 

[Total Refected Power]

Was free, as well as grad school.

 

[Dorn]

I agree with BA, being a Nat'l Merit Scholar is nice. $0/semester for me, here at Iowa State University.

 

[CyberSax]

$35K a year. I didn't even have enough money on hand to cover the first semester's expenses

I'll be paying off student loans well into my 40's no doubt (got 4 years of college, and 4 years of grad school to go)

It's well worth the money though

 

[BiB]

You sure cybersax?

My parents paid for my university, I did a 9 month technical diploma after getting my undergrad and it set me back $24k. I am of the opinion now that the worth of an undergrad degree is so little that unless you can get it paid for or are POSITIVE that you're going to a GOOD grad school with gauranteed money after (like medicine), then its a waste of time. I know far far too many people who owe $50k and have only a half-assed history or sociology degree to show for it. Waste of money. Big waste. I have an ex-friend who is now pursuing more and more "things" in philosophy and spending a crapload of cash to do so. For what I ask? He'll be paying loans for decades.

People say that you need a university degree to get work now. Well that isn't true...4 years of school plus a degree in history isn't gonna get you jack. I've got another friend who, $60k in debt with a sociology degree (crappy grades), has a goal now to be assistant manager at the university bar. What in hell did he go to school for? To rack up a loan! If you want a great job chances are you'll need to do university somewhere in there, but university sure as hell doesn't ensure you'll get a good job. Most people who leave seem to have no idea what they want to do and that is because learning how to write an essay teachs no real practical skills.

BiB