[-dustin]

what do you guys pay for tuition?

how much has it gone up since you've been in school?

UT likes to feed us all this "best education for the money" line, even though our tuition is ever-increasing. gone up $1400 in 4yrs for us. this coming semester, my tuition and fees will be just over $3400.

and Mack Brown is getting a $1.7mil birthday bonus.

 

[BigMike]

Mine is around $2,500

 

[BurlyShirley]

free for me

 

[ito]

Approaching 36k.

Liberal Arts Jesuit University, good education, really freaking expensive.

The crazy thing is that in the 80's they had a big fit when tuition went from 7k to 10k a year.

The Ito

 

[nicklin]

around 4 k a year and 15k in all excluding housing, I go to the UC. God damn liberal school, but the best school i could aford.

 

[JRogers]

I get some aid/loans but the annual fee is about 38K total (room, board, food, everything) before all that. Sucks but that's the way it goes. It's gone up every year for the last few. Few grand in total.

 

[Transcend]

$1300 cnd for a semester here in canada...over 30Gs USD when i was at school in the us of a. Happily, that was on the US tax payers and Cu alma mater

 

[Toshi]

mine was somewhere on the order of $38k/year for undergrad. and that's tuition only.

med school is going to be $29.5k/year all inclusive, and my "aid" consists of $10k of loans. thanks, guys

 

[hans2]

When I came in as a freshman, I think it was around $33K. I think my fourth year was $36K. According to their website, this year its $40K for tuition, room & board, & fees.

 

[Jesus]

Boy am I glad I never went to college. I know a lot of people that owe as much as a house in school loans. And to make it worse, I make more money than most of my "educated" friends. Kinda makes it hard to justify, unless you can guarantee a good salary, i.e. a Doctor.

Plus I got a 14 yr old daughter thinking about college. I think I am one of the few parents who could care less. I just tell her it's her choice.

 

[TreeSaw]

I paid about $28-31k during my undergraduate work (1994-1998) and only tuition during my graduate work, which was about $2500-3000 per semester!

 

[McGRP01]

$15k / yr. '90-'95 undergrad.

 

[Andyman_1970]

Originally posted by Jesus
I know a lot of people that owe as much as a house in school loans.

I don't owe that much, but at my current monthly payment, I'll have my school loans paid off in 2017 (not a joke). The one positive note is that the interest is tax deductable.

Originally posted by Jesus
And to make it worse, I make more money than most of my "educated" friends.

I got my undergrad in 1994, and didn't put it to use until the second job I got after graduation (in 1999). For those 5 years there were lots of guys I worked with that did not have a degree that were making more than me.................just a wee bit depressing.

 

[Westy]

'92-'96 my tuition was about $20K/year. I did not pay a red cent then though. I got $12K/year in grants and borrowed the rest. Right now I only have about $2K left in student loans.

 

[I Are Baboon]

Damn, I can't believe what some of you pay.

I went to a state school from 1990-1995. $1500 per semester plus books and some summer classes puts my total college education (B.S.) at a little under $20,000. I paid as I went (three part time jobs).

 

[neversummersnow]

About 15k/semester w/room-board/fees/some food

I guess it'll be going up at CU too...throw on another 60k for law school and that is what I have ahead of me.

 

[fasterTHANyou]

george washington university is close to 40k a year for me (i graduate next week), but i think for incoming freshman its more...

 

[pinkshirtphotos]

If I seek politcal exile in canada will my loans follow me? If I moved in canada as a resident will my loans follow me? Moving back in the united states will they be there still? Might file bankruptcy post college, what do I loose from me when I do?

 

[stoney]

If I seek politcal exile in canada will my loans follow me? If I moved in canada as a resident will my loans follow me? Moving back in the united states will they be there still? Might file bankruptcy post college, what do I loose from me when I do?

School loans are loans directly from the govt. They never go away, even if you bankrupt. Hopefully you got a good degree with decent paying jobs, otherwise you're screwed.

 

[?????]

If I were the CEO of a company looking for new employees and learned that you paid $30k a year or semester for some basic college education, I would seriously have to question your business savvy.

It's slightly more tolerable if it's a professional degree undergraduate or graduate program, but even then, $15k/ year or less will get you the same thing in most states.

Unless your degree says Harvard, Princeton, Yale or MIT, no one cares if you went to the Ken Copeland Institute of Higher Sourcery.

 

[binary visions]

If I seek politcal exile in canada will my loans follow me? If I moved in canada as a resident will my loans follow me? Moving back in the united states will they be there still? Might file bankruptcy post college, what do I loose from me when I do?

What possible reason could you come up with to be planning to file bankruptcy after graduating?

Bankruptcy does not discharge your student loans.

 

[binary visions]

FYI, most debts of the size of college loans are not written off by creditors. They go to court, and if the courts cannot find you, they issue a summary judgement against you, typically giving the creditors whatever they want as long as it appears fair (i.e. full repayment + interest + fees).

Once that happens, you are essentially SOL. If you ever come back to the country, they can garnish your wages until the debt is repaid and I believe the statute of limitations does not apply once a judgement is issued (it only applies if the creditor doesn't go to court before it expires).

You can move permanently, but if the creditor has a presence in the other country, they can transfer the debt if the deem it to be worth the time/money to do so. I don't know how this works if the creditor is the government, but since debts can be sold to private parties, I wouldn't count on this to protect you.

(source: my experience working for a Chapter 13 bankruptcy trustee)

 

[bean]

If I seek politcal exile in canada will my loans follow me? If I moved in canada as a resident will my loans follow me? Moving back in the united states will they be there still? Might file bankruptcy post college, what do I loose from me when I do?

This sounds like an excellent plan. Do it.

 

[jonKranked]

i went to a private out of state uni... $24k a year when I started (2002). when i graduated ('07) it was up to $36k a year. it's now north of $40k a year. Note: this includes R&B.

 

[kazlx]

I went to a Cal State school. I remember it being in the $2500 range per semester for in state tuition. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for letting me graduate debt free.