Rutgers is almost exactly 15k for in-state
Admittedly I was looking at just tuition - we all know books are a racket. But community colleges average less than $1750/semester - which tracks with the classes I took while dual-enrolled (several years back). Actually it’s quite a bit more, seems the prices have gone up considerably, but close enough that I believe it.
I want to say my credit-hours were like $30-40/hour, so around $105 for a 3-credit class, extrapolate to 15 credits, $1575 for a pretty full semester. I’m sure it’s gone up both for fiscal inflation and academic tuition inflation. Still seems within the parameters of what I found from Google today.
for 4 years??? that is surprising, but regardless, not everyone has residency in new jersey to go to rutgers.
isn’t a community college a 2 year college?
for a 4 year college, I don’t know of any in the New York area that you can get a degree for under 15k.
Cal State University system in state tuition ran $9K/year when my son went there. I’m thinking most actuaries can swing something like that, even with the cost of housing thrown in.
Of course my daughter went to a private school that was considerably more expensive even with her financial aid package where I’m sure some would not want to swing what that cost.
But honestly we started saving for the kids college education when they were born so yes we had the funds available.
They can be, it depends. They can be 4 years. Or you can always do 2 years CC and 2 years university or something in that area. I know a registered nurse who came from CC.
Very possible in NY. Maybe getting out of NYC you’d have cheaper prices, maybe the premiums inflate even the other colleges though.
yeah, but for some of these schools you need to be a resident to get the cheaper prices so it’s not like a slam dunk to go there.
but CUNY is certainly doable on an actuaries salary. not 15K total though. that’s extremely cheap.
Join the Guard. CUNY costs $0.
In my childhood area, the community colleges didn’t even have dorms. I was 17 living at home and taking 2-3 classes before or after high school classes. Just cost a few hundred (we did have to pay out-of-pocket, kind of annoying since I’m pretty sure it legally should have been compensated.)
Edit: But if you meant living in the area/state, I truly don’t know.
Everyone’s always saying that. The average community college student attends school five to seven years. Many offer four-year degrees.
I forgot, I also know a biology researcher who came from a CC. I’m not fully clear what she does, but it’s related to vaccination and pathology. I think she currently isn’t fully a doctor but is getting toward it.
I’m pretty sure very state has favorable in state rates. And there are a number of states that have reciprocal agreements to charge in state rates or at least discounted rates to residents of certain states. For example: WUE schools charges 150% of in state rates at a 160 different colleges across the Western united states
But part of the problem is not just tuition which in and of itself can be substantial, it’s housing, food, utilities, books, etc. on top of tuition all at a time when you’re assumed to be a full time student supposedly taking as much energy as a full time job with little or no income to speak of. Yes there are some who treat college as a 4 year party, but that’s not everyone.
I think someone else touched on the live at home Community College model for the general education portion of your degree where credits are very cheap. Than transfer in as junior for at 4 year school to complete your degree.
To be fair, though I’m advocating the ways to cheaply attend college, I also think the costs and excesses of spending in traditional university are absurd and unacceptable, the college loan industry is bloated to the point of immorality, and incentivizing military service to, let’s be honest, children in exchange for that is not right.
Although I also had military recruiters in my high school when I was 14. That’s a related but derailing topic, however.
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It really began in the 1970s when we had bi-partisan support to shift block grants to state colleges and universities to predatory loans to students backed by the Federal Government. Both for profit private colleges and financial institutions that profited bigly from the switch to a student loan based system were uge donors to both sides of the isle in both facilitating the change and funding opposition to any meaningful reform in the decades that have followed.
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If you think 18-year olds are children, keep them at home and don’t send them to college.
Again - marketing tables set up in my high school starting when I was 13-14. They couldn’t recruit me, they certainly wanted to groom me for it.
Probably had some tables from colleges too. So what?
If it offers a 4 year degree I’m fairly certain it isn’t a community college by definition
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Perhaps the Curriculum was Unavailable.
I wasn’t aware, seems this is largely true now that I’m looking at it again. Didn’t realize they don’t usually offer 4 years. Still, ~2 years (or possibly 2.5/3 depending on how much can transfer) followed by commuter attendance is totally possible and could get you done in the sub-30ks, if everything is planned out right and you stay on the same track.