How much did you have to pay in tutition when you graduated college, and how much is it now?

[charlie and algernon]

When I graduated, I was paying, on average, $35,000 a year. Which is already insanely high and I'll be paying off my student loans till I'm old and gray, LOL.

I just checked to see what it is for the incoming class of 2014 ...... $50,000!!!!! :wow: :wow: :wow:

How the FUCK do people afford college anymore???

[Kali]

1. dependent of an employee - had a fee waiver

think I paid like $30/class hour plus books - no discounts there!

I kind of wasted an opportunity and screwed around the 3 or 4 years I tried being a student.:party::smoke::beer::bounce::puke::hangover:

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. I stopped paying after I graduated. I only paid while I was there.

I think my tuition for college (private school, in the 80s) was about $7000 a year (for tuition, activity fees, room and board, etc. - I can't remember what just the tuition was)

Grad school, in the early 90s, was about $17,000 per year for tuition, and another $9,000 for fees, room (no board at that one!), health insurance, and other miscellaneous. And then another $1,500 or so for books.



I have no idea what the costs are now, because, as I said, I stopped paying. I imagine the college has gone up a lot and the grad school probably not as much.


on edit: holy crap, just checked my college - they're up to $13000 per semester tuition, plus thousands more for room and board. Damn. I knew it had gone up.

Grad school has gone up to just over $20,000 year, so not too big an uplift for 15 years away.

[Ptah]

3. $2,700 per year tuition 1969-70 at Northwestern University.

Today it's $38,461.

[abq e streeter]

20. Didn't know you went to N.U.

ETHS class of '68 here.........Winters in Evanston; no wonder both of us live someplace warm.:fistbump:

[Ptah]

28. I grew up on the prairie of north central Montana.

The Evanston winter was easier.

I only lasted one year at Northwestern.

Won the first draft lottery.

The rest is history.

[abq e streeter]

29. Wow- guess winter in Chi. WAS probably a piece of cake after that.

My lottery number was 15 after dropping out of Knox...I spent 8 hours at the abduction...oops...induction center before I convinced them that perhaps the Army might do just as well without my many gifts and talents.But things were all set by then with some good people in Canada who were ready for me just in case.

[Ptah]

30. Not a piece of cake, just not 40F below with 40mph winds.

My number was 26.

I enlisted in the USAF to try to avoid the jungle.

It worked.

[rug]

4. CUNY was free when I graduated high school.

[Lucian]

5. I'm only paying ~$10,000/yr.

Where are people paying $50,000??? Private institutions?

[eyepaddle]

8. Yes. That's a bit on the high end though. Most of 'em are still somewhere in the

30s.

I payed $3500/year for my undergrad, it has gone up to a bit north of 6k.

[sakabatou]

6. I don't know

I didn't graduate. I only had one semester before I was injured and couldn't return (besides for a few classes over the last 4 years).

[hunter]

7. There was no tuition. Yearly "fees" were around $900.

I usually got away with about $300 worth of books a year.

My rent was $80 a month.

I ate pretty well on $20 a week.

I had a job that paid $10 an hour.

Gas was practically free. It cost less than $10 to fill the tank.

I never took out any student loans.

If only my kids had it so easy. We're talking $40,000 a year.

:nuke:
  :grr:

[Richardo]

9. Reg fees at UCLA (California resident) were $210/quarter or $630/year

....that's $2,520 for four years and a Bachelor's degree. I'd have to say: worth it.

I have no idea what the kids are paying now, but I DO know that the University of California was in much better shape during the Jerry Brown administration (for me: 1974-78).

[unpossibles]

10. I forget but I want to say when I started college it was about

3 chickens and a goat per quarter, and when I graduated <mumble> years later it had gone up to 6 chickens, a goat, and a large fancy stone.

[MorningGlow]

11. I graduated in '87

Room, board, and tuition was $11K in my senior year (started at $9K when I was a freshman in '83). My parents nearly died from sticker shock. I had to work two jobs on campus during the school year and slave away at HORRENDOUS summer jobs (no fun ones outdoors for me) to help pay my way. For the 2010-11 year, my college is now charging just about quadruple the price--upwards of $42K!



But I hear they're throwing in a free laptop nowadays...

Oh also--this is a small college that was known as the "fallback" school for rich fuckers who screwed up so badly in high school even their parents' money and influence couldn't buy their way into a "decent" school. I don't know if it still has that reputation, but if it does, maybe they're trying to capitalize on it... :shrug:

[Posteritatis]

12. $4500/yr, graduated in 2005

There was a tuition freeze shortly after I finished; I think it's only a few hundred bucks higher. My grad school tuition a couple years later was about $2200/semester for the three I was there.

(Both figures are just tuition; if I was in residence at either the price would roughly double.)

[Turbineguy]

13. $1150.

That's right. 3 x $350 per year. plus books and clothing. I graduated in July 1975 with a $1500 student loan that I paid off in October. Now it's $17,500 per year. That's still fairly cheap.

In the 1970's California had an excellent and affordable education system. It was strong enough, it took the Reaganites years to destroy it.

[madinmaryland]

14. $2 per credit hour. Yes that is right.

My father taught at the university, and it was one of the benefits for going there.

I got an BS Electrical Engineering degree.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. When I graduated from college

back in the Pleistocene era (1969), the tuition was about $1,500/semester (that was on a guaranteed tuition plan). Don't remember what room & board was. Same college (small private liberal arts school) now charges about $50K a year for tuition, room, board, books and other expenses.

Yikes.

[applegrove]

16. I think I paid about $5000 a term 25 years ago. But that was in Canada

where our colleges are much cheaper.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. $18 per credit hour max of whatever $18 x 12 is.

in 1966

I do not know what it is now but I know it is high.

That was a Methodist college

[abq e streeter]

18. Graduated from U.of New Mexico in my 30's (1985) ; think it was maybe a thousand???

maybe 1500?


for in-state , which was easy to get back then...Now it's 2700 in-state, 9200 out of state

My original college, Knox, in Illinois, was 3,500 when I started in the fall of '68;I had about half covered by scholarship...I think it's about 40K now.

[Kat45]

19. My first year, it was $3200 for tuition alone. (I commuted.)

Now, tuition is $39,432; the full package is $51,088!

(As a working class kid, it was hard for my family to afford my tuition. I can't imagine any working class families affording today's tuition. Middle class families too.)

[kwassa]

21. Tuition went from $3000 to $36,659, with room, board, and fees $53, 520

I went to college in 1970, though. It was considered an expensive school at the time.

[pscot]

22. I can't remember exactly

but I had a National Merit stipend of $600 a year and that covered tuition and fees at U of I Urbana. That was 1960.

[struggle4progress]

23. Can't remember exactly but when the oil money was still flowing,

graduate tuition at the University of Texas was something like $50/semester

[latebloomer]

24. I think it was about $3K a year at BU in the early 70s

My parents were able to pay for it out of their middle class paychecks.

They did NOT have to save my entire childhood.

They did NOT have to take out huge loans and spend the rest of their lives paying them off.

Which is what I am looking at now with my kids.

College actually used to be affordable for the middle class. No more.

[NYC_SKP]

25. I'm an outlier. Don't use me in your data set.

The Cooper Union in NYC is free to all who are accepted.

Five years to earn a Bachelor of Architecture degree, and only an annual $300 fee for something, I don't remember what.

So, $1,500 total.

I believe President Obama spoke there today. Abe Lincoln spoke there in 1860.



:patriot:

[tjwmason]

26. Nothing.

I was in the last year that started at U.K. universities before tuition fees were introduced (I matriculated in 1997).

The next year students were charged £1000 (at current rates $1500, at the time about $2000 I think), rising in line with inflation.

Students beginning in 2006 then had to pay so-called top-up fees, which made tuition £3000 (c.$4500) per year. Since then the fees have been rising with inflation - this year they're £3225.

They're set by the government and apply to all universities in England (more complex regulations apply to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). The system is currently under review, with many universities pushing for the rate to be raised higher.

[stray cat]

27. Small state school in 1988 around 2000 per year now its around 6000.

[Old Troop]

31. I paid $5K per year for a private school

I paid $35K per year for out of State tuition for my daughter at UNH.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

32. not too much.

In the mid-70s, both a state school I went to and a private school were about $2K a semester for the dorms & meals; the big diff was the tuition. The University of Houston was $4 a semester hour in the mid 70s; it's a giant state school.

I graduated from a very small private liberal arts college, Trinity University.
It was $125 per semester hour when I graduated in 1979.

From the website:
•Trinity has been rated one of the nation’s best buys in higher education by publications including the Fiske Guide to Colleges, U.S. News and World Report, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
•86% of Trinity’s students receive financial aid.
•The University distributes over $37 million in financial aid annually.
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Present on-campus fulltime costs:
2010-2011 TRINITY UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE COSTS*
(Undergraduate On-Campus Full-Time: 12-18 credit hours)
Tuition $29,832.00
On-campus Housing (double occupancy) $6,896.00
Light Meal Plan (includes sales tax) $3,416.00
Fees $180.00
TOTAL DIRECT COSTS $40,324.00

Books & Supplies $950.00
Personal Expenses $1,050.00
TOTAL INDIRECT COSTS $2,000.00

TOTAL COST of ATTENDANCE $42,324.00
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I went to a private law school from 1980 through 85 at night. Tuition when I started was $75/semester hour and $125 when I graduated. Law school is 90 semester hours. I think you had to pay for a min. of at least 8 semester hours even if you were taking less, and working during the daytime, as I was.
I think I spent about $10K for tuition and about $2,000 on books. This is a freestanding school which is not attached to a university and has no dorms.
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I probably paid as much or more for my daughter's Montessori education from age 3 until she moved to public school in 8th grade, as my parents spent on my college.

She got her B.A. from a state school.