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Consumerist: "Here are the 25 most expensive colleges for 2008-2009, based on total cost (tuition + room and board). Whooie, this is some pricey book-learnin'. Highest Total Cost 2008-2009 College | Total Cost 1. Sarah Lawrence College | $53,166"
I'm not surprised that we come in at number 11.... our tuition is insane. But I hope that the Inspire Innovation Campaign brought in some money so that we can lower or at least keep tution at the point it is now. I also found it interesting that NONE of the ivies are on the list....
I would like to know why tuition went down? I believe for class of 2012 it's like $52,000 which would put us second or third. However on this list the cost is "only" $49,000. How come it went down? Either way tuition is still insane and the government needs to do something about lowering it and making sure loans will be available for next year!
I enjoy how the list put CMU tuition at 49,000 - for the drama school it is more like 52,000. Katherine mentioned she want to know why the price went down- i think it is more about which program you are in. For general CMU it is only 49,000 but the school of drama is 52,000 - at least that's how i interpreted it. The government really does need to do something about it - i know they made an attempt this last year - for schools that had HUGE endowments like Harvard and Yale they made them lower their tuition- but because CMU is so "new" our endowment wasn't big enough to qualify. Something needs to be done though because these prices are just unreasonable even more so they are not reflective of our current economy.
Oh, CMU. How I have mixed feelings towards your administration... I'm lucky in that I pay 2006 tuition instead of 2008. Still, the cost of living in Pittsburgh is not that high. The only reason CMU charges so much is because we have ivy league aspirations and practically no endowment to support it with.
I agree with Katherine? Why is the tuition less than what we paid...? That makes me a bit angry because I know how much I paid and that amount is the same for the higher priced colleges? I dont understand forst off, why college is so exspensive anyways? "Oh I paid a million dollars to go to college" thats means that i have a better education than anyone else! No, it depends on the person first off and it also is dependent on how good the school is. I am willing to pay the tuition for carnegie mellon because I KNOW that it is a good school and I am getting my money worth in the end.
Tuition does make me worry, especially with the present credit climate. Looking for student loans is likely going to get difficult. I do wonder how college subsidies (for public and private) would figure in to government spending. It's always astounding to me that healthcare, education, and the like is the miniscule part of the federal budget they make up compared to all the departments with guns. At the same time, it's hard to know how much the root of this is in the university's structure and how much is intrinsic to the resources we're using.
1st of all cost did not "go down" in the article. It is showing the tuition, room and board. It does not include materials fees, insurance, tech fees, etc.
2nd of all, we do get money from the government, but this is a Private institution as are all the other schools on the list. Even if it wasn't, most of us are out of state and average out of state tuition these days is still in the high 30s.
I'm not saying it's not expensive, It costs more to go here than what my parents make in a year. I'm just saying NYU kids are prob closer to 60k, especially after freshman year when they have to get there own apartment.
I didn't realize ours was so high. I guess the comment made on the site rings true that how much aid do these colleges provide? And the standard of living and cost of living in each of these cities is probably different so that might really change these numbers.
When I graduated from my undergrad at a small state school out west, I had about 8K in loans. Here at CMU things are obviously a lot more expensive. Luckily I'm not paying nearly as much as they have listed there (woo grad school), but already for this year I have taken out over two times the amount in student loans as I had in 4 years of undergrad. Let's hope the experience and connections we get here are what they're cracked up to be--we've all got a lot of debt to pay off once we get out in the world!
Tuition is so unbelievably inflated. Schools have been increasing tuition in order to build their endowments. This is the opposite of what should be happening. Endowments should be used to help students attend the school without going broke. It is a very common thing to do calculations of the cost of each class, and when it is looked at that way… it is even more ridiculous. I understand that college is more than classes (much more!) but it is still crippling to students straight out of school.
I find it funny/sad that I go to the 11th most expensive college and my older brother the 12th. However 49,000 is not the numbers we were given in the beginning of the year. It's actually closer to 52,000 for the drama school meaning that for us we go to the second most expensive college in the USA. This is ridiculous. There needs to be some sort of regulation or assistance to college tuition. Especially when you realize that not all the money goes to classes and board. Some goes to building the endowment as outlined in our CAPITAL CAMPAIGN KICK OFF, which is raising billions of dollars, part of which comes from us. I feel this is unfair and is a unnecessary cost and should be optional at best. Also wealth should not be a requirement for higher education along with intellect, therefore if the US wants to maintain/create an edge over other countries (we are not even close to the front in pretty much anything) then some sort of help or agreement needs to be made between colleges and the public. And if the government needs to step-in to make that change then so be it.
Wow, helps to realize just how crazy expensive we are. I guess for the most part since a lot of people have at least a little financial aid, we don't really se how we size up in terms of cost. Also, for those of you who mentioned goverment intervention, all you have to do is wait just a little longer until my dawg, Barack Obama, is in the white house.
Just remember the old saying of Make the most of what you got. Your in CMU and the tuition will haunt you for a long time. I milled about for a while before deciding to go here due to the cost. The whole, is this place i need to be, not the cost to education ratio.
It's crazy how much colleges and universities are charging these days for tuition. It's times like these that I wish our government put more money into education and less into war and tax cuts. Peter Cooke, the head candidate who spoke today, mentioned that the tuition at his institution was something like $4000 because of government subsidies. If our government put more money into our education system, more people would be able to receive a top-notch education.
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I'm not surprised that we come in at number 11.... our tuition is insane. But I hope that the Inspire Innovation Campaign brought in some money so that we can lower or at least keep tution at the point it is now. I also found it interesting that NONE of the ivies are on the list....
I would like to know why tuition went down? I believe for class of 2012 it's like $52,000 which would put us second or third. However on this list the cost is "only" $49,000. How come it went down?
Either way tuition is still insane and the government needs to do something about lowering it and making sure loans will be available for next year!
I enjoy how the list put CMU tuition at 49,000 - for the drama school it is more like 52,000. Katherine mentioned she want to know why the price went down- i think it is more about which program you are in. For general CMU it is only 49,000 but the school of drama is 52,000 - at least that's how i interpreted it. The government really does need to do something about it - i know they made an attempt this last year - for schools that had HUGE endowments like Harvard and Yale they made them lower their tuition- but because CMU is so "new" our endowment wasn't big enough to qualify. Something needs to be done though because these prices are just unreasonable even more so they are not reflective of our current economy.
Oh, CMU. How I have mixed feelings towards your administration... I'm lucky in that I pay 2006 tuition instead of 2008. Still, the cost of living in Pittsburgh is not that high. The only reason CMU charges so much is because we have ivy league aspirations and practically no endowment to support it with.
I agree with Katherine? Why is the tuition less than what we paid...? That makes me a bit angry because I know how much I paid and that amount is the same for the higher priced colleges? I dont understand forst off, why college is so exspensive anyways? "Oh I paid a million dollars to go to college" thats means that i have a better education than anyone else! No, it depends on the person first off and it also is dependent on how good the school is. I am willing to pay the tuition for carnegie mellon because I KNOW that it is a good school and I am getting my money worth in the end.
Tuition does make me worry, especially with the present credit climate. Looking for student loans is likely going to get difficult. I do wonder how college subsidies (for public and private) would figure in to government spending. It's always astounding to me that healthcare, education, and the like is the miniscule part of the federal budget they make up compared to all the departments with guns. At the same time, it's hard to know how much the root of this is in the university's structure and how much is intrinsic to the resources we're using.
1st of all cost did not "go down" in the article. It is showing the tuition, room and board. It does not include materials fees, insurance, tech fees, etc.
2nd of all, we do get money from the government, but this is a Private institution as are all the other schools on the list. Even if it wasn't, most of us are out of state and average out of state tuition these days is still in the high 30s.
I'm not saying it's not expensive, It costs more to go here than what my parents make in a year. I'm just saying NYU kids are prob closer to 60k, especially after freshman year when they have to get there own apartment.
I didn't realize ours was so high. I guess the comment made on the site rings true that how much aid do these colleges provide? And the standard of living and cost of living in each of these cities is probably different so that might really change these numbers.
When I graduated from my undergrad at a small state school out west, I had about 8K in loans. Here at CMU things are obviously a lot more expensive. Luckily I'm not paying nearly as much as they have listed there (woo grad school), but already for this year I have taken out over two times the amount in student loans as I had in 4 years of undergrad. Let's hope the experience and connections we get here are what they're cracked up to be--we've all got a lot of debt to pay off once we get out in the world!
I think it would be good to have this chart right next to one of schools with the highest employment rates and highest average graduate salaries.
Tuition is so unbelievably inflated. Schools have been increasing tuition in order to build their endowments. This is the opposite of what should be happening. Endowments should be used to help students attend the school without going broke. It is a very common thing to do calculations of the cost of each class, and when it is looked at that way… it is even more ridiculous. I understand that college is more than classes (much more!) but it is still crippling to students straight out of school.
And yet we still pay 10¢ a page to print in the non-Purnell clusters. awesome.
I find it funny/sad that I go to the 11th most expensive college and my older brother the 12th. However 49,000 is not the numbers we were given in the beginning of the year. It's actually closer to 52,000 for the drama school meaning that for us we go to the second most expensive college in the USA. This is ridiculous. There needs to be some sort of regulation or assistance to college tuition. Especially when you realize that not all the money goes to classes and board. Some goes to building the endowment as outlined in our CAPITAL CAMPAIGN KICK OFF, which is raising billions of dollars, part of which comes from us. I feel this is unfair and is a unnecessary cost and should be optional at best. Also wealth should not be a requirement for higher education along with intellect, therefore if the US wants to maintain/create an edge over other countries (we are not even close to the front in pretty much anything) then some sort of help or agreement needs to be made between colleges and the public. And if the government needs to step-in to make that change then so be it.
i'm glad David post this article. at least, we dropped down one, since we were on number 10 last year. i hope to drop more next year.... sad...
Wow, helps to realize just how crazy expensive we are. I guess for the most part since a lot of people have at least a little financial aid, we don't really se how we size up in terms of cost. Also, for those of you who mentioned goverment intervention, all you have to do is wait just a little longer until my dawg, Barack Obama, is in the white house.
Just remember the old saying of Make the most of what you got. Your in CMU and the tuition will haunt you for a long time. I milled about for a while before deciding to go here due to the cost. The whole, is this place i need to be, not the cost to education ratio.
It's crazy how much colleges and universities are charging these days for tuition. It's times like these that I wish our government put more money into education and less into war and tax cuts. Peter Cooke, the head candidate who spoke today, mentioned that the tuition at his institution was something like $4000 because of government subsidies. If our government put more money into our education system, more people would be able to receive a top-notch education.
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