Why is college expensive?
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It really depends on where you go... community colleges around here are still around $17 per semester unit.  San Jose State (CA)averages out to about $100 per unit if you take 15 units.  UC Berkeley comes in around $200-$300 a unit if you take 15 units.\n\nCollege would be even more expensive if part of it weren't subsidized by the taxpayers.  Just look at the cost for non-resident tuition, and the cost at private schools.  Hiring professors costs money.  The better the professors, the higher the cost.  Some states defray this cost with taxes more than others do.
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college is a struggle. u have pressure to pass ur classes and also pay to go to school. im a double bio and psyc major and i have been in college for two years now.
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The pros of a private college is name recognition. People tend to think that private colleges = better education. Class size is usually small as well.\n\nThe cons? Chances are you can get an equally effective education at a public university. The expenses are unreal, and unnecessary. I paid a little over $2,100 in tuition and fees this semester. Tuition and fees *only* for private colleges runs approximately 3 times that.
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yes.  It's getting more expensive to go to college because funding is being cut.  The "no child left behind" is an oxymoron because the schools can't produce the rules they mandate because of cut backs in funding.
955863
You'll never know the cost of the certificate program, untill u go and register for the  class..Because all programs have different classes, so your tuition is based of that. And then there's book cost and others things u may need for that program including uniforms, etc.
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I think colleges tend to be more private, more focused on a particular form and discipline of study, where universities are generalized to many study programs.  Some colleges tend to be smaller, while university tends to be quite large.\n\nI think your analogy runs true in the US as well
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In many ways you are right. Education is an investment of time and money that may or may not pay off. If you know you won't be totally committed to college, don't go.
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Scholarships act as a kind of recruitment tool.  Most schools have enrollment goals that they must meet.  And every school wants to enroll the best and brightest students in its applicant pool.  If an Admissions Office considers an applicant desirable, they know full well that there are probably plenty of other schools that desire that same applicant.  More and more, Financial Aid is playing a key role in the student's enrollment decisions.  So why wouldn't a school tip the scales in its favor by offering the desirable student money to attend?\n\nThere are revenue issues at play, too.  Simple math, really.  If a school that costs, say, $30,000/year to attend manages to enroll a top student by offering him/her a $10,000 scholarship, that's $20,000 of money that it has made -- a "profit" of $10K that the school can use to cover its costs or improve its facilities, recruit new professors... and so on.
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Not as important as your money.  If a college is comparing you to another student for admission then they are 5% important.  In addition,  they help you if you are seeking scholarships.
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Generally it is because long time resident have paid taxes that are allocated to the schools.  People from outside the state have never contributed to the state where you intend to go to school.  Therefore they charge more.
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There are not cheap colleges in Toronto. They are basically all the same costs, tuition etc.
562110
STUDYING is free, it's the books & stuff, that's expensive!
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the cost of american universities are really high. it is about $35000 for tution and if you wanna know how much it costs for you to undertake a course like MIS with other expenses, you would end up paying about $75000 a year that includs, (food, a place to rent, books and travelling).\n\nGood luck, hope that helped
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Because most colleges require you live in their dormitories the first year (for social reasons) \nAND\nthe cost of parking is crazy in colleges.
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My son attends a private college in Michigan.  He's in his second year, and it costs $31,000 a year.  Maybe you can get enough info from your question to decide what is low.  Good luck!
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there are so many colleges that they need to break it out.  Plus theres a lot of money to be made playing in a good conference\nb
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It's not a matter of just scraping by paying your bills.  Some people go to college to get better jobs so they aren't just living paycheck to paycheck.  Some go because they like learning about new things, the atmosphere and the intellectual challenge.