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How much did/is college costing you guys?

tkepongo said:
I figured i'll be in college for at least another 4 years so i was wondering how much loans you guys had to take to pay off your college. i'm guessing i'll be at least $25000 in debt when i come out
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Depends on the school.

I needed to borrow 30k for undergrad, a liberal arts college, and I also studied abroad.

My first masters degree was entirely paid for through a fellowship, which was nice.

Im getting my second masters at Columbia though and I'm embarrassed to say how much it costs here:eek:
 
I guess I was lucky. For my undergrad, I had a state scholarship that paid more than my tuition, so I ended up making about $3000 per year, for 4 years.
 
About 30 000 CAD over four years, if I recall correctly. Paid for entirely myself, and I finished school without any debt.
 
i am planning to go to the University of Washington Med School. So....around 200,000+ when all said and done.:D:cool::cool:
 
Approx. $42,000 total debt undergrad (small, private school, but awesome!)

Approx. $15,000 for Grad School (second year paid off)

Approx. $155,000 for Medical School (but the dual doctorate should pay some)

Total, around $220,000 for the whole package deal, however most doctors have some sort of tuition forgiveness if they join larger group practices (up to $50,000) as well as grants, etc. for going to underserved areas. My wife and I live a very frugal lifestyle; despite the debt I am accumulating, we manage to save about $15,000 a year which we will use as a downpayment on a house. The school loans have very low (fixed) interest rates, so I am less concerned about paying those off in a hurry like a mortgage, but I do not intend to drag it out longer than about 9 or 10 years post-residency.
 
Well when I go to my Vocational school I expect somethign like 40,000. Either that or the Army will train me either way they are paying for it.
 
Cooknn said:
They only count math and critical reading for Bright Futures.
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Ahh. That makes more sense:)
Best of luck to your son.:)
flowagner said:
this may sound cheap compared to american/canadian/british uni/college costs ... i pay like 360 euros per semester at university of vienna in austria.

the uni is good. i love it there. but german and austrian unis take a different approach towards academic education. i think it's just horrid to cash in *that* much money as an institution of academic education. it should be about bringing forth educated people instead of just those who had the monetary predisposition.

i've been to canada this summer and visited some renowned unis over there. i even sat in some classes and i am certain that my education is worth at least as much as their overpriced education.
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Well what's different is the amount of subsidy the school collects. The other costs are likely to be consistent whether the school is in Vienna, London, New York, San Francisco, Berkeley, etc.

CRAZYBUBBA said:
If you think thats bad wait til you hear this, my sister's high school charges her 38K (Including room and board)
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Well it is a private boarding school right?;)

iHerzeleid said:
23k a year. UC Davis
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I'm sorry.:p:D

What program are you in?

Jschultz said:
Private school sucks for tuition :(

21K x 4 =84K ...Meh. All for a piece of paper I'll use to make 30K/yr when I graduate. :(
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I want that private school. Only $21,000? Last I checked, Columbia, NYU, Stanford, etc, were charging $45,000 including dorms. My public education is costing me $21,000:eek:
 
Right now I'm in a state school getting my undergraduate. I have a 4 year scholarship, but my parents are left having to come up with about $600 per semester for the extra hours I'm taking. Books are running me about $500 per semester and housing is about $4500 a year for my apartment.

So about $28,000 for my undergrad with my scholarship.
 
Next year I'm going to a community college for my first 2 years which is $2,000 a year. Then I'll transfer to a 4 year to finish up the last 2 years for marketing, that will cost $13,000 a year. That's a total of $30,000. My parents will pay for that but I'm assuming they will at some point want that paid back to them. I'm looking to graduate college with a positive net worth, at least $100,000. I'm hoping to accomplish that with working as an investor in the stock market and other business ideas I may come up with during the next 4 years.
 
$24,000 a year tuition - ($12,000 a year academic scholarship + $12,000 a year covered by parents)=$0

I don't live on campus, I live at home, so it saves me $8000-$10,000 a year. Living at home and getting half tuition paid for is the only reason I can go to a nice, small private school. Ha, it's actually smaller than my public high school.

Was thinking about law school but have somewhat decided against it, instead I'm thinking of pursuing a Ph. D. or DBA in Accounting, but I'll really only consider schools with guaranteed full tuition waivers and stipends for all admitted/incoming students. So that will hopefully cost me $0 as well.
 
Lets see. Tuition is about €1500 per year, which is about $2200. Should be completely my studies by late feb 2008. So 4.5 years total = €6750.
Quite a bargain if you consider that my uni is ranked amongst top business schools in Europe! :cool:

Government pays almost all of the tuition here, but then again we get hammered by all the taxes here.
 
College, free

University £15,000 for a Physics Masters ($30,000).

Ph.D - sponsored.
 
I went to a state school and it was about $2,500 a semester for tuition with another couple hundred for books. That was as an out of state student.

I am currently getting my masters through a distance learning program and it is about $1500 per class for tuition.
 
Daveway said:
Right now I'm in a state school getting my undergraduate. I have a 4 year scholarship, but my parents are left having to come up with about $600 per semester for the extra hours I'm taking. Books are running me about $500 per semester and housing is about $4500 a year for my apartment.

So about $28,000 for my undergrad with my scholarship.
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Do you really need $600 worth of books? What course are you taking? I'm taking Mechanical Engineering and I haven't spent a penny on books. Is your library really that empty?
 
Paying 40k a year for an undergraduate business program not including room and board.

Debt acquired: $0. Thank god for parents.

If you do buy books, always buy the international edition. It'll be half or a third of the price. If you don't want to buy books, most schools keep copies of their more common textbooks on-file in their libraries. A lot of classes don't require the textbook except for homework and more often than not, you can borrow from friends.
 
My dad works at the University I go to, Arizona State University, so I get 75% off my tuition.

I'm paying about $750 a semester.

I know I am extremely fortunate to be paying those prices in the US.
 
UC Santa Barbara is about $18,000 a year, but thanks to all of my AP scores, it's like I got 2 years for about $500. Which is very nice. Leaves more money to be eaten up by whatever grad school I get into, when the time comes.
 
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