College Prices Rise; Borrowing Follows Suit

[OhioChick]

Community Colleges Stymie Rising Prices Best

POSTED: 1:17 pm EDT October 22, 2007
UPDATED: 4:19 pm EDT October 22, 2007

Average tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose 6.6 percent this year, again outstripping increases in financial aid and pushing students into more borrowing.

Community colleges once again did the best job keeping the lid on prices.

In-state students at four-year public schools are paying $6,185 this year, up $381 from last year, according to the nonprofit College Board's annual survey of college costs, released Monday.

At four-year private colleges, tuition and fees rose 6.3 percent to $23,712.

The published price is not the real price for many students. On average, accounting for grants and tax breaks, full-time students are actually paying $2,577 this year to attend four-year public universities. That's $209 more than last year.

However, even the net price is still rising much faster than overall inflation. The net price at public universities is $560 higher, in 2007 dollars, than a decade ago.

http://www.newsnet5.com/education/14395101/detail.html

The cost of getting a college education is just sickening.... :puke:

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Borrowing packages for college education may be the "new" subprime debacle

in the future. Good scams seldom disappear.

[marmar]

2. I am very glad I'm out of college.....

It was expensive enough when I was in school in the 1990s.

[Akoto]

3. I'm going to community college. It's all I could afford.

I'm very happy with it, though, and am already finding employment. Certainly not paying five-digit tuition.

[Selatius]

4. Going to the community college was one of the best things I did.

I scored a 26 on the ACT, which was the min. requirement for their full-paid scholarship there. I had my first two years of college paid for free essentially, and the semester book rental fee was only 50 bucks. Got my Associates degree there as well. They offered me more help than the state university ever did when I transfered to work on my Bachelors, and the state university is the one that got me in trouble with large student loan debt over 20,000. Books at the state university? Shit, one semester I had to dish out 500 dollars just for books. This was never seen at the community college I went to.

[SOS]

5. Went to college in Austria in the early 1980s.

Everything was free and they sent me a check as a stipend to help defray my living expenses.
Stinkin' Socialists!

[aikoaiko]

6. I like to advertise GA in these threads -- free tuition to all public colleges

As long as you graduate from a GA high school with a 3.0 and keep your college grades above 3.0. If you move here, then you must pay for the 1st year, and then you get the free tuition as long as you keep you grades above 3.0.


Not too bad for a southern state, eh?