Schadenfreude » tuition http://www.ralree.com Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:49:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How much college cost http://www.ralree.com/2006/12/10/how-much-college-cost/ http://www.ralree.com/2006/12/10/how-much-college-cost/#comments Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:18:09 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.info/2007/10/13/how-much-college-cost I decided to go back through the records and dig up exactly how much it cost for me to go to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks for 4 years. It was technically 8 semesters and 2 summers. This is not yet figuring in books because I don’t have the figures for that at the moment, but I might add them in the future. I’m just going to guess about $500/semester, and $200 total for summer. So we can add about $4200 to the final cost out of pocket, and it should be almost right on. Also, I’m neglecting cost of living, which was a little high. But, if I wasn’t going to school, I would have had to pay that anyway, so I’m going to ignore that completely.

Cost

Health Center Fees 660
Transportation/Parking Fees 342
Computer Science Dept. Fees 84
Campus Activity Fees 12
General Tech Fee 435
Culinary Arts Fee 75
Computer Network/Use Fees 356
Student Government Fees 195
Student Life Fees 520
Meal Plan 7320
Student Recreation Center Fees 300
Lower Level Tuition 6266
Orientation 30
Sports Pass 49
Upper Level Tuition 6129
Campus Housing 12944
Off-Campus Housing 1500
Lab Fees 387
Alcohol Education Class/Punishment 25
Fine for leaving peanut butter out over XMAS 50

Payment

Employee Training Tuition Waiver 327
UA Scholars Tuition 11000
UA Scholars and RA Housing 8442
Payment 17693

So, I went to school for around $20,000 once you include books and all. Not too bad when you consider the average college tuition.

The average tuition at four-year public colleges and universities is $5,836 for the 2006-07 school year.

Total Out of Pocket: 17693 (47%)

Total Paid by UA: 19769 (53%)

Total: 37462

So, I made out pretty well, I don’t have any debt, and I’ll make that money back in one year easily working in my field.

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