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Not at all true. They can choose to go to very good public universities with in state tuition (often around $10-12k per year). We can sit down and discuss the tradeoffs of the degree they are getting vs the earning power of that degree. And the tradeoffs between being a commuter student and one that lives on campus. Or saving money by attending community college the first two years. NONE of those conversations will h…
I don’t have time to look up tuitions for each state, but that’s highly dependent on where you chose to live. Something that your children have no control over. I certainly did not have a “very good public university” with $10k tuition. My state flagship (Rutgers) was over $20k per year. Other states public universities were often even more expensive, Berkeley would have cost more than any private university I was ac…
- University of Maryland, College Park ~ $10k a year [1]
- University of California, Los Angeles ~ $15k a year [2]
- University of Pennsylvania, WOW $56k ... that's .... CRAZY for a public University.
Obviously this is not at all a good sample size but I picked public universities in populous areas in states that cover a lot of the population. And I'm picking better known ones. Someone else probably has a lot of good, statistical data on this, like the US Gov Department of Education.
1: https://academiccatalog.umd.edu/undergraduate/fees-expenses-...
2: https://admission.ucla.edu/tuition-aid/tuition-fees
3: https://srfs.upenn.edu/costs-budgeting/undergraduate-cost-at...