Can someone explain the college credit system?

[Neutrino]

I'm paying a little more than $2k per semester for tuition here at UT-Austin. Books bring the cost up to about 2.3-2.4k though.

[Drogue]

I didn't know Uni's cost that much over there. I thought the most expensive in the US we about $25,000 per year, so about $100,000 for a 4 year course; and most a lot less. It's at times like this I'm glad to be British I pay ~£400 per year (about $650) and I get a loan of ~£4250 a year to help with living costs, at ~3% interest

[:) Smiley]

And beer of course adds another large sum...

[SpencerH]

I think Harvard and the other top schools are up close to 40K/yr now

EDIT I did a quick check and it looks more like 35K with housing.

[Timexwatch]

I go to "The George Washington University" in the center of Washington D.C., so you know it's going to be expensive. We are a metropolitan campus, so it's a bit more expensive than a standard campus.

I think we're at about $38,000 a year with tuition, room and board. It's considered a "second tier" school in comparison to the Ivy Leagues, but the undergrad programs for business and polisci are good (and so are the Medical and Law programs).

[Myrddin]

A university in the UK would charge you £7000 (about $11500) per annum for fees for a 3 year undergraduate course (plus room and board)

Why not swim the pond?

[Japher]

College credit is not worth figuring out (it's like the points on "Whose Line is it Anyway")... Just plan on at least 4 years of school (5 if your an engineer or like to party, 6 if your an engineer and like to party or love to party, 7 if you get stoned out of your mind everyday, 8 if your dumb enough to become a doctor).

Just Take enough courses to declare you at least "full time" whatever they mean by that (quarter system was 12 or 11, don't remember), which will equal to about 3-4 classes, with labs and/or discussions. Just keep taking classes until someone called a "guidance counciler" tells you that you need to work towards a "major" or until they give you a diploma. If they tell you to work towards a "major" they mean something to get a degree in... Yeah, I know, this was knews to me too...

If that is you; go get a copy of your transcripts at the registars office and a course catalog (generally available at the bookstore), look through these to see what degree you are closest to getting a degree in and then just start taking a lot of those classes.

Then you might get a degree..

Oh, yeah, you don't get more credit for taking a class twice unless you failed the first time... even if you like the class or the cute chick failed last semester.

[Timexwatch]

And go to school in Aberystwth with Spink? I think not

Going to school in DC provides an opportunity for experiencing politics and the federal government up close. It's essential for people like me whose degree (Political Science) is good for $20k a year unless you have connections.

In all seriousness, I'm considering going there for grad school so I don't dig myself deeper into debt.

[Gangerolf]

In the civilised world higher education is payed for by the government

[Timexwatch]

I get subsidized Stafford Loans (Interest deferred until graduation, IIRC). That's the closest I get to government payouts.


You also forget that this is the U.S., and that our higher education system is #1

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Myrddin
A university in the UK would charge you £7000 (about $11500) per annum for fees for a 3 year undergraduate course (plus room and board)

Why not swim the pond?

Because that's more expensive than what I'm paying here.

[GePap]

We all know $6.95 buys a mansion in Mississippi..costs area bit higher elsewhere.

U Chicago cost me and my parents about 34,000 a year for four years, though in the end, with loans, grants, and since I finished earliere, it came out to less than 120k (160k sounds awfully high for a four year college). I owe the owe the gov. 20k, as do my parents.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by GePap
We all know $6.95 buys a mansion in Mississippi..costs area bit higher elsewhere.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Japher
College credit is not worth figuring out (it's like the points on "Whose Line is it Anyway")... Just plan on at least 4 years of school (5 if your an engineer or like to party, 6 if your an engineer and like to party or love to party, 7 if you get stoned out of your mind everyday, 8 if your dumb enough to become a doctor).

Just Take enough courses to declare you at least "full time" whatever they mean by that (quarter system was 12 or 11, don't remember), which will equal to about 3-4 classes, with labs and/or discussions. Just keep taking classes until someone called a "guidance counciler" tells you that you need to work towards a "major" or until they give you a diploma. If they tell you to work towards a "major" they mean something to get a degree in... Yeah, I know, this was knews to me too...

If that is you; go get a copy of your transcripts at the registars office and a course catalog (generally available at the bookstore), look through these to see what degree you are closest to getting a degree in and then just start taking a lot of those classes.

Then you might get a degree..

Oh, yeah, you don't get more credit for taking a class twice unless you failed the first time... even if you like the class or the cute chick failed last semester.

Spoken like someone who's spending his parents' money instead of his own...

[FrustratedPoet]

But isn't Japher like 50 years old or something? Or have I got him confused with someone else?

/edit: His profile says he's late 20s.