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Tuition is getting crazy

I found an interesting article on the tuition costs for degrees at the different public colleges and universities in Michigan. I was amazed. The cheapest were around $62K while the two most expensive were $85K and 108K with the rest ranging pretty evenly between $62K and $84K. It that is true, we got a screaming good deal. We paid around $2.5K per year per kid for tuition and fees at Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh and around $7.5K per year per kid for them to finish up at NCSU. That means, we paid about $10K for community college and $30K for university for a total of $40K. So our kids graduated from what we would argue is the best school in North Carolina (including UNC, Duke, Davidson and Wake Forest, but we are biased) for $20K per kid.

The two lessons I got from that are:

  • Community college is an amazingly great bargain
  • North Carolina is a great place to go to college

NCSU tuition increase causes serious hardship

NCSU caused hardshipNow that we found out NCSU is going to make dramatic tuition increases, Christian has decided he is going to make do with the equipment he had.  RWDub’s Reviews will be quite happy to know he uses Linux Mint on a USB stick to run the computer and persist his data between boots.  There is no money even for a hard drive.  It is good thing we had that old cardboard box from when we could afford to buy stuff from Amazon.  We are going to have dig up a mouse somewhere, too.

Cardboard box computer

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