70% Increase In College Tuitions In Past 10 Years?????

[Greg B]

Are they in-fucking-sane?????

It was $20k a year basic when I was in college over 20 years ago. It must be abominable today!!!

How the fuck do they expect kids and families to pay for this shit???

NBC News just ran this story on college costs.

These tuition costs are so fucking high it's crazy. Any of you guys who graduated within the past 5 years, how did you manage?

[Drake]

It's big business these days and their is so much demand for people to have degrees that they'll get in debt to pay for it

[kowntafit]

its no wonder many kids grow uneducated education has become a commodity that costs more money than it should

[Screaming]

you work your first 20 years to pay it back heh

[detoxed]

Originally Posted by kowntafit

its no wonder many kids grow uneducated education has become a commodity that costs more money than it should

More people than ever are going to college.. its not like people cant go.

[Sosa]

costs a shitload if you want to goto a big university

[FTVGirls]

I graduated from Dental School in (Temple Dental -Philly) and came out with $250,000 in student loans. Edit: graduated 5 years ago.

[The Heron]

Supply and demand! I learned that in college...

[David!]

It is $92 per credit at University of Florida which is not a bad school. Most State Universities are in that price range.
It doesn't matter where you graduate from unless you go to an Ivy League school or if you are a top notch student who will graduate in the top 1% of your class.
Once again, news media have proved that they don't know what the hell they are talking about. Makes you wonder where they graduated from.

If you get a Master's Degree from a State University and graduate in the top 5% then you will be in very good shape and won't have to repay hundred of thousands of dollars in student loans.

[AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE]

I mentioned this sometime ago...
Of course everyone laughed at me...

[Babagirls]

fuck that shit!
i do plan on going to college but only for specific classes to get certified in (which is about $200-$300 a class), just to have something to fall back on in case i cant work in this industry anymore, and i could easily get a $30k+ job being certified in a few computer/internet areas (which is in high demand).

my mom is a school teacher, and shes been paying on her school loans for about 7 yrs now (they even automatically take her tax refund every year) and theres no end in sight, just so that she can make around $35k a year.

my man, who doesnt have a degree for anything, is making over $50k a year (full benefits, retirement, union, etc) and $0 in debt.

[jigg]

my boyfriend has to pay $500/month for the next 12 years to pay off his student loans, and that's from when he was in school in the early 90s.

and he even doesn't work for what he went to school

[broke]

Originally Posted by jigg

my boyfriend has to pay $500/month for the next 12 years to pay off his student loans, and that's from when he was in school in the early 90s.

and he even doesn't work for what he went to school

People make bad decisions all the time....

[Spunky]

It seems like only the immigrants can afford to attend them now

[broke]

Originally Posted by spunky

It seems like only the immigrants can afford to attend them now

I loved when the ESL undocumented high school immigrants from AZ kicked the shit out of the MIT students in their little underwater NASA/NAVY machine contest.

Seems even those immigrants can't afford school...

[Greg B]

Yes! You are fucked the minute you walk in the door at college. I went to a big ivy league school and will probably go back for old time's sake. I believe in constantly being educated. Yet I'm in a different position than most as it's to my advantage.

Yet I recall young guys walking in the door at the office, 21 or 23 years old, 200 or more K in debt! They had to pay that shit off and there were collection agencies calling the office day and night trying to get a piece of them. Not only that but some of the guys had wives and or kids and brother, they would never see the good side of a paycheck IF they got one. It was like we were paying Uncle Sam and the courts instead of the guy or gal we hired!

It was horrid! It was a trap! If a young couple out of college bought a house and had a kid, they were in debt til Jesus came back.

I saw that shit coming years ago and worked my situation so I would never be in that kind of debt. Only a rare, rare few would get those high paying jobs. The guys raking in the most dough were the mavericks, the rebels who believe it or not ended up in comics and computers and real estate ( no landlords though ).

I remember getting into this industry and seeing an army of college kids roll through. Actually it was the Japanese college kids that got ME into this biz. They were making a FORTUNE with adult anime toons. I'm talking like back in '96 they were raking in like $500k a year and paying off their bills. Mind you a fucking donut in Tokyo cost $80k they somehow made it and when they paid off their bills etc. they all piled into Thailand and Brazil to live the life of Riley.

This is a cruel fucking world and the shit I've seen I wouldn't blame anyone from doing adult to stay the fuck out of the mouths of the wolves cause the government and society are totally geared to fuck you over.

[jayeff]

The costs seem even more ludicrous when you consider that these colleges and universities are part of such a poor education system. According to the New York Times last December, US workers are now so ignorant and lacking in basic skills that employers are spending over $30 billion a year on remedial education. Not training, remedial education. We now rank 49th in the world in literacy and 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy.

And for the first time in 30 years, last year fewer foreign students enrolled in US schools and colleges. Meanwhile overseas enrollment increased in Europe and even in China of all places.

It is also a factor that college students are spending a considerable amount of time learning the basics needed to ensure they can cope with the college courses proper. If these were taught in high school, as they are in most other developed countries, the time spent at college could easily be reduced by 25%.

[The Bootyologist]

it's gone crazy

i dont even have a kid but im saving

[Cassie]

Originally Posted by jigg

and he even doesn't work for what he went to school

sad thing is, a good portion of people do not end up in jobs they were educated for.

[Greg B]

Originally Posted by jayeff

The costs seem even more ludicrous when you consider that these colleges and universities are part of such a poor education system. According to the New York Times last December, US workers are now so ignorant and lacking in basic skills that employers are spending over $30 billion a year on remedial education. Not training, remedial education. We now rank 49th in the world in literacy and 28th out of 40 countries in mathematical literacy.

And for the first time in 30 years, last year fewer foreign students enrolled in US schools and colleges. Meanwhile overseas enrollment increased in Europe and even in China of all places.

It is also a factor that college students are spending a considerable amount of time learning the basics needed to ensure they can cope with the college courses proper. If these were taught in high school, as they are in most other developed countries, the time spent at college could easily be reduced by 25%.

A-FREAKIN-MEN Jayeff!!!

That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Dead on balls accurate there buddy boy!

I ended up spending like five fucking years back in the 90's training guys who had just gotten out of college!!! Of course they all went on to become millionaires in cartoons/comics/animation but they were good kids then.

It was astounding how little they were prepared for the workforce and their literacy levels were damn near non existant. The scriptwriters loved it when I came along because I could understand what the fuck they were writing!

Survival skills as well. I can see how re-training in the fundamentals is eating up employer's time and resources. Nowadays though it's like the companies are looking to hire the dishonest dumb guy to cover their bullshit though so they end up creating versatile hoodlums.

The U.S. is not about educating, it's about conditioning for obedience. It's done with chemicals and threats and media brainwashing. Just look at the shit you see we call television shows. There's better acting and content on a porn site for cryin' out loud.

[theking]

Originally Posted by Greg B

Are they in-fucking-sane?????

It was $20k a year basic when I was in college over 20 years ago. It must be abominable today!!!

How the fuck do they expect kids and families to pay for this shit???

NBC News just ran this story on college costs.

These tuition costs are so fucking high it's crazy. Any of you guys who graduated within the past 5 years, how did you manage?

My oldest brother has a Masters and has about 7-8 thousand student loan debt. He worked full time while obtaining an Associate...Bachelor...and Masters.

My oldest sister has an Asscociate...Bachelor...and will have her Masters come May. She worked part time thru her Associate and Bachelor...and has been working full time during her Masters. She will have somewhere around 20 thousand in student loan debt.

They both attended the same State but different State Universities. Both of them work in a field within their Bachelor degrees...and both will be seeking a job in a field within their Masters...which will boost both of their incomes by about $20,000 per year and increase their pay cap.

[Michael O]

Thank god I live in a country where almost any education is free.
Well the thruth is you get paid around $800 a month while in school

[woj]

The tuition is not THAT bad, $10k/year at a public in state university will cover tution/books/etc. Plus if you are dedicated and want to save some dough, you can go to a community college for the first 2 years, which costs probably half that. So your 4 year degree will run you $30k, which unless you majored in something useless, can be paid off in 2-3 years fairly easilly.

[BRISK]

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[Susan F]

No wonder my cousin came back to Costa Rica to get his degree! He´s a big time manager now for Pepsi.

[MacDaddyPlaya]

Gotta love the Florida Pre-Paid College Plan.

I have two boys 10 & 6, they are both paid in full for 4 years of tuition and 1 year of dorms...regardless of how expensive tuition is when they enroll.