education prices

[Dr_Watson]

i just got an email today saying my tuition will go up 5.9% for next fall. :icon33:
they just fucking raised it 7% last year... jesus christ on a bike, tuition is going to be near $30K next year.
At this rate I'll be priced out of my education in no time.
bastards!
(and according to their financial figures they took in ~$180 million in tuition last year, so i have no idea where they're spending all of this cash... unless maybe the higher-ups thought it was time for a "compensation increase")

[Fjoggs]

Free education.. ah, lovely.

[plained]

eh when you think about it, 7% doen seem that bad.

less flunkies with higher costs i bet.

and maybe a greater respect for the degree as well.

dunno

[DiscoDave]

Over here in the UK our tuition fees have gone up to £3000 a year (5,211.86 USD). If its a good thing or not im not sure....

[Guest]

Yeah they've been going up around here too... Frankly, I'm not that surprised. Most professors out there actualy have a lot of knowledge and have to get good pay to teach, otherwise why bother?

What get's me is those people who go into philosophy/politics and have like 2 masters with 4 degrees and 2 phd's or somethign rediculous. No wonder these guys become professors, it's either that or get assasinated with all the information they know.

[Qr7]

I don’t know about you UK fags, but people here (GWU - Washington dc) are paying 52K (USD) a year. College sucks. Lets here it for scholarships.

[PhoeniX]

I don’t know about you UK fags, but people here (GWU - Washington dc) are paying 52K (USD) a year. College sucks. Lets here it for scholarships.

As Dave posted we pay around $5,000 a year

[Guest]

Here its $132 CAD ($113 USD) per semester in college and $2795.30 CAD ($2395.57 USD) per fall and winter terms (2 semesters or one school year) in university.

[Foo]

Didn't you guys get the memo? Education is big business now.

[Methyd™]

Was only paying $3,500 a year when I was in college. Luckily I dropped out.

[Wizard .3]

Here its $132 CAD ($113 USD) per semester in college and $2795.30 CAD ($2395.57 USD) per fall and winter terms (2 semesters or one school year) in university.

Yet so many students still complain about the tuition fees. It's unbelievable.

[Dave]

I'm sure the tax rate in the US is lower than in the UK. I might pay 10 grand a year to go to a public university, but I bet you guys pay more in taxes to offset that difference.

[werldhed]

Getting paid to go to school, ftw. Word up.
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[ScooterG]

I hear ya, dude. It took me until I was 30 years old to actually "own" my two degrees!

[tnf]

Getting paid to go to school, ftw. Word up.
:icon25:

Yea, but graduate research programs are a tad different.

At one point, I had stipend money from both a grant I wrote and my NIH Biotechnology Fellowship at the same time. Factor into that the tuition waiver and that was a nice package.

Then I decided to teach high school. 31,000 in debt to become a high school teacher. Make less, go into more debt. Jesus Christ what a decision. *keeps reminding himself about June, July, and August.*

[werldhed]

Getting paid to go to school, ftw. Word up.
:icon25:

Yea, but graduate research programs are a tad different.

At one point, I had stipend money from both a grant I wrote and my NIH Biotechnology Fellowship at the same time. Factor into that the tuition waiver and that was a nice package.

Then I decided to teach high school. 31,000 in debt to become a high school teacher. Make less, go into more debt. Jesus Christ what a decision. *keeps reminding himself about June, July, and August.*

Shh... don't give it away. I want to sound cool!
It's not much of a stipend -- just barely enough to get by (I'm not on any fellowships yet) -- but at least it's not stuff I owe.
Did you go into debt because you quit the program, and were require to repay the tuition waiver? Or was that leftover debt from undergrad?

[tnf]

Getting paid to go to school, ftw. Word up.
:icon25:

Yea, but graduate research programs are a tad different.

At one point, I had stipend money from both a grant I wrote and my NIH Biotechnology Fellowship at the same time. Factor into that the tuition waiver and that was a nice package.

Then I decided to teach high school. 31,000 in debt to become a high school teacher. Make less, go into more debt. Jesus Christ what a decision. *keeps reminding himself about June, July, and August.*

Shh... don't give it away. I want to sound cool!
It's not much of a stipend -- just barely enough to get by (I'm not on any fellowships yet) -- but at least it's not stuff I owe.
Did you go into debt because you quit the program, and were require to repay the tuition waiver? Or was that leftover debt from undergrad?

That was the cost of my Master's in Teaching program. I wasn't required to repay anything.

[Dave]

I work for the university (not as a student employee) and I'm a student, so I get full health coverage, vacation time, sick leave and a TIAA-CREF retirement plan. Beat that fuckers

[werldhed]

(@ tnf) Gotcha. In my program I believe you are required to repay the amount of tuition you've milked from the school if you quit partway through.
That may be if you fail out, though... I'm not sure.

[menkent]

Or was that leftover debt from undergrad?

i'm *almost* breaking even now as a grad student with a teaching position, but i certainly have around $30k of various student loans looming just over the horizon. fuckers.

of course about any of us could have gone to State U and had full tuition + room&board + books and/or a new computer. when i decided on a private university i just accepted the fact that i wouldn't be able to afford falling back on a position as a public school teacher (thank fuck i never wanted to in the first place). i think i'm going to shop my resume around a bit this summer and see what ($) that ", M.A." will land me. my dick tells me it'll be enough to make it worth the trouble, but my brain keeps telling me i'm gonna be real poor for a while.

[tnf]

(@ tnf) Gotcha. In my program I believe you are required to repay the amount of tuition you've milked from the school if you quit partway through.
That may be if you fail out, though... I'm not sure.

I didn't milk it per se, because it was all through the NIH. I landed a pretty nice fellowship from them that covered tuition, gave me a stipend bigger than an RA would be, gave me 1 trip to DC a year for some big biotech thingy, gauranteed me an internship in the participating biotech company of my choice, etc. I let it all go. It was above and beyond the regular graduate responsibilities, and it was highly competetive to get the fellowship. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't mature enough to handle it all - being only 22 and right out of college while most everyone else had been out living a little before. The professor who oversaw the 7 of us who had these NIH fellowships expected us to consistently be at the top of everything we did - I remember getting an 89% on a graduate biochem test, way above the curve, and being told "we'll have to work on getting those scores a bit higher." In the end, the hoop jumping, politics, and ass-kissing that were required by the program were just too much for me at that age...so I bailed.

Had I gone into the program at 26 or 27 instead of 22, the ending would have been much different. But that's life.

[Dr_Watson]

holy crap your schools are cheap.
this year my tuition was ~$24,000
(and that doesn't include housing, if you live on campus its over 30k)

[LawL]

I'll have $43,000 student debt by the time I graduate.

[Mogul]

I'll probably be more in debt than some of you put together.