Current Events > American colleges and universities finally crack the $100,000 per year barrier

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https://bryanalexander.org/future-of-education/american-colleges-and-universities-finally-crack-the-100000-per-year-barrier/
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Glad I went to a state school where tuition was 7,500 a year.

Which degrees are those? Like, neurosurgery? Dont tell me its like an IT degree or physics or engineering or anything lol

Rika_Furude posted...

Which degrees are those? Like, neurosurgery? Dont tell me its like an IT degree or physics or engineering or anything lol

Degrees dont effect the price of tuition. If you go to college for an English or Art degree it same price as STEM degree.

Massachusetts lol.

Unless youre doing open heart surgery or eye surgery, I cant imagine that where you go to College means much anymore.

All this while the trades pay more lol

Lol, I am pretty sure I applied to Wellesley back in like, 2017 or so too. They came to my CC offering a free tuition thing. Didn't get it though.

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By design. And proposed limits to student aid funding would make attending these schools actually impossible for anyone who wasn't already loaded.

Ivy league aka billionaires and near billionaires send their kids there to not learn a thing, get a piece of paper, then be CEO fresh out earning millions

For Harvard, I'm pretty sure it's free if your family makes less than I think 200k a year?

The rest are other private colleges which are just always expensive.

A few months ago Wellesley College (private, liberal arts, Massachusetts) posted their 2025-2026 Tuition and Cost page. It breaks down prices for services a student would engage, including tuition ($69,800), housing ($11,520), meals ($10,776), a student activity fee ($344), and health insurance ($4,051). That page then estimates prices for additional and very likely expenses incurred when living on campus for that time: books ($800), personal expenses ($1,250), and travel/transportation ($0 to $2,000). If we accept all of those figures for now, and assume the full 2K transportation figure and that a student doesnt forego medical insurance, the total is $100,541. Inside Higher Ed summed it up: Wellesley now appears to be the most expensive college in the country.

My kid will be class of '40 and we are preparing to pay up to $1M ($250k/yr).

College is a huge racket in the US and people are finally starting to realize it. I was told as a kid in the early to mid 2000s by everyone with any authority that I would be less than nothing without going to college.

The government wanted more "educated" citizens so they pushed so hard that an entire generation of Americans are tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt many of them with degrees that colleges should never been allowed to even offer because those people should never have been in college in the first place. The government allowed banks to charge insane interest rates on these loans and now there are people who have been paying for 10 years and still owe as much as they started. Even now colleges continue to raise prices, while being paid hundreds of millions a year in subsidies by the government and having multi billion dollar endowment funds.

I honestly can not wait until this all collapses.

Hell yeah, my school made the top 15! When I went it was around $55K a year, but after scholarships I think I only paid like $10K a year on average.

wtf at BU and BC, theyre decent schools but not anywhere near Harvard or even Tufts, those prices make no sense

the rich get richer

I just realized Bentley is up there. I was actually accepted to that school for their Marketing program. I even have an acceptance shirt I got from them. I later saw the cost of tuition and backed out the moment after.

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It's honestly kind of awkward having it. I almost jumped into it. I think at the time, it was like 65k a year. I was like 'Yeah that's too much'. To wear the shirt would to me, feel like stolen valor. So it's been sitting in my dresser at the bottom, lol.

Also, no, that's not wear on the shirt. I think it just came like that. To kind of give a 'legacy' feel to the University.

Sayoria posted...

I just realized Bentley is up there. I was actually accepted to that school for their Marketing program. I even have an acceptance shirt I got from them. I later saw the cost of tuition and backed out the moment after.
It's honestly kind of awkward having it. I almost jumped into it. I think at the time, it was like 65k a year. I was like 'Yeah that's too much'. To wear the shirt would to me, feel like stolen valor. So it's been sitting in my dresser at the bottom, lol.

Also, no, that's not wear on the shirt. I think it just came like that. To kind of give a 'legacy' feel to the University.

Ha, this is my school. Though it was still College at the time. I got a good education there, but it was very heavily reliant on rich international kids. I didn't fit in super well. But the financial aid was great, it was 3x the cost of my state school but ended up being significantly cheaper since the state school gave me almost nothing in scholarships.

Where does all that money go

sheesh.

when I went to community college, it started out around $11 a unit, but throughout Schwarzenegger's term as governor, it rose to $33 a unit (which was still better than a lot of schools).

and when I transferred to a four-year, it was less than $2k a semester.

emblem-man posted...

For Harvard, I'm pretty sure it's free if your family makes less than I think 200k a year?

This is correct.

They don't want kids working or worried while studying during their education about the costs.

Evolician posted...

Where does all that money go

Most of this list is Boston - we have some of the highest housing costs in the nation, and this list is using the most expensive dorms for each school. So yeah, you are paying a lot but you are also living in an apartment that would generally be several thousand a month if you were renting.

BlueTigerLion posted...

Degrees dont effect the price of tuition. If you go to college for an English or Art degree it same price as STEM degree.

This is not true, at my school my computer engineering degree cost more than other majors

At this point, go to community college for any Applied Science associates degree. It's only a two year program. Really what I should have finished community college for even though they confused me by, I guess, assuming that since I was at CC for 2 years that I was graduating or some shit?

Like I walked at a commencement ceremony and shook someones hand and they asked me if I wanted my contact info in a year book. I did NOT finish a degree. My school counselor told me I had like 6-8 credit hours left to get some kind of Applied sciences degree but my Mom instead decided I needed to enroll in a DIFFERENT community college. Which burnt me out after trying to get into their Computer college and I was told I had to take more math and prerequisites after a year of being there.

I just said "Nope, I'm done with college. I don't wanna do this shit anymore". And that was back when it was like only $5,000 a semester or something. Part of it was my ADHD making applying for classes and FAFSA every semester and horrible anxious nightmare. I couldn't do it without a molten hot pit of stress in my stomach spurring me to actually go through with it. I quit for my sanity.

Is that covering room and board?

Evolician posted...

Where does all that money go

Admins, mostly:
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It's also worth remembering that some of the more elite universities charge such crazy amounts of money because they know foreign Nations will pay whatever the dollar amount is to send their students overseas. They're harvesting as much money as possible from international attendance, which is also why schools like Harvard are around 30% international students.

TheGoldenEel posted...

This is not true, at my school my computer engineering degree cost more than other majors

Most engineering degrees will cost slightly more because more credits are required. But the cost per credit-hour is likely the same (absent lab fees, etc).

tankboy posted...

Most engineering degrees will cost slightly more because more credits are required. But the cost per credit-hour is likely the same (absent lab fees, etc).

No, The per credit cost was higher

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TheGoldenEel posted...

No, The per credit cost was higher

interesting. I have a degree from the engineering school of a university with three other undergraduate schools, and they all had the same credit-hour cost, but I guess different places are different.

tankboy posted...

interesting. I have a degree from the engineering school of a university with three other undergraduate schools, and they all had the same credit-hour cost, but I guess different places are different.

Yea. Might be different in other states. I went to CUNY, one of the biggest US school systems. Same situation each class cost the same. In my school system 1218 credits was the same price. By that I mean if you took 12 credits if you choose to do 6 more credits 18 credits and 12 credits cost the same. Not sure about other colleges since the other user didnt say which one they went to.

Higher ed is a scam.

Look at all the zoomers on YouTube/TikTok/whatever making millions despite dropping out of high school.

I'm an instructor at an online university. If a student plans properly and is disciplined about their studies, I've seen that it's possible to earn a degree from a legitimate, not-for-profit, accredited university for under $10k total. Obviously, that degree won't carry the prestige or connections of a private legacy school, but it's still worth it as en educational pathway for those who are priced out of more traditional schools.

iGenesis posted...

Higher ed is a scam.

Look at all the zoomers on YouTube/TikTok/whatever making millions despite dropping out of high school.

I mean that's just late-game consumerism advertising. Adverts have gotten to the point they pay out the fuckin' ear on any platform that can retain viewership. Doesn't matter if you're talented or not or have anything interesting to say as long as you're "entertaining" or you stoke the outrage animus and keep the simpletons addicted to their rage.

I don't know why you Americans put up with this. Tuition in my country when I graduated was $2500 a semester and we thought that was fucking ridiculous, because it was the most expensive in the country (cheapest was half that).

iGenesis posted...

Higher ed is a scam.

Look at all the zoomers on YouTube/TikTok/whatever making millions despite dropping out of high school.

This is the modern equivalent of saying, "Higher education is a scam. You could just join the NFL out of high school and make millions instead."

It's both a) True and b) Not remotely a viable option for 99.999% of the population.

BlueTigerLion posted...

Degrees dont effect the price of tuition. If you go to college for an English or Art degree it same price as STEM degree.

I cannot say if the same is true in the US, but what degree you take absolutely affects the cost of tuition here. The higher paying the job at the end, the more you can expect to pay in tuition.