How Much do you pay for College?

[downtown]

Take off from the costs of high school...

How much do you, or your parents, pay per year to attend college? Include amounts you have to borrow each year. If you want, you can specify what the school actuallys costs before govt. grants, and scholarships.

 

[Leifmk]

Norwegian colleges / universities are public, so there are no tuition fees whatsoever. You have to pay a registration fee each semester, which comes to about 70 US$. Of course books aren't free and you have to pay your own living expenses somehow; there are standard student loans available to the tune of about 13 thousand US$ per year, which (combined with summer or part-time jobs, and/or the odd parental support) allows people not to starve or freeze to death.

 

[Tenochtitlan]

~30k

I pay nothing, nor do my parents

 

[kronic]

Norwegian colleges / universities are public, so there are no tuition fees whatsoever. You have to pay a registration fee each semester, which comes to about 70 US$.

Same here.* Those "registration fees" differ between 50 and 200 € and sometimes include tickets that enable you to use the local public transportation network for free.

*Tuition fees of about 500 €/semester are set to be introduced in the next years.

 

[blackheart]

$3000 out of the pockets, $5000 in government loans which I don't have to repay for a while. Bentley College costs about $43000 a year, so I am really happy with what I got

 

[Gainy]

The goverment pays for all Scots' education.

£0

 

[Left]

$21,000, after scholarships

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I haven't gone and I am not planning to do so either.

 

[Yoda Power]

Education is free in Denmark

 

[luiz]

Nothing, it's public Uni. Not even registration fees. I do spend a few hundred dollars every semester with books though, and naturally I have to pay for food and the gasoline to get there.

Unlike most nations, in Brazil we have crappy public schools and good public Universities. That's why I studied in private schools all my life and am now in a public Uni. We really are a screwed-up country.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

It's about $4,000 CDN for me per year.

 

[GenMarshall]

Around 5,001-9,999 USD for me

 

[Pyrite]

Being broke with okay grades means free college! yay !

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

I don't remember what it did cost, but the gov't picked up the tab for my bachelors. One school picked up the tab for one masters (had to be a grad assistant) and the gov't paid for another masters. Never had a single loan for education.

 

[Paalikles]

Norwegian colleges / universities are public, so there are no tuition fees whatsoever. You have to pay a registration fee each semester, which comes to about 70 US$. Of course books aren't free and you have to pay your own living expenses somehow; there are standard student loans available to the tune of about 13 thousand US$ per year, which (combined with summer or part-time jobs, and/or the odd parental support) allows people not to starve or freeze to death.

What he said mostly, but to me it's 550 or so NOK per semester, and 40k NOK in student loan (minus conversion to scholarship as exams are passed) per semester. Right now I am about to finish, and I only have 35k in studentloan left to pay, which will be paid in full as soon as I get the bill for it.



Ok, that may be exactly what he said in terms of monetary costs, but I refuse to give costs/prices in USD every damn time I write something on a discussion board. Why should I remember the exchangerate all the time anyway...

 

[kronic]

You could give them in € though.

 

[blackheart]

Unlike most nations, in Brazil we have crappy public schools and good public Universities. That's why I studied in private schools all my life and am now in a public Uni. We really are a screwed-up country.

Sounds like America's school system.

 

[luiz]

Sounds like America's school system.

Aren't private Unis the best in the States?
In Brazil the public ones are best*, the opposite of what goes on in school.

*This is quickly changing though, as many quality private Unis are opening and the public ones are usually decadent.

 

[CaptainF]

I do not go to college yet, but I will probably end up paying too much for my own good.

 

[Corlindale]

Nothing at all. In Denmark we have state-funded universities, though books will of course still be an expense, but that is largely covered by the educational support the state pays to all college students(about 8000-9000$ a year, also enough to get food and a decent place to live).
They really want us to get a good education, it seems