Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it

Re:Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 ... by Spooky23 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:21PM (#27835601)

If your parents are wealthy enough to not qualify for need based aid, but not enough to be rich, your $50k tuition + $30k NYC living situation adds up quick.

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Re:Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 ... by xapata on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:20PM (#27852096)

Ok, so we've got $320k debt for NYU grads. They're at around 6.5k students graduating each year. I don't know what portion have "useless" majors paid entirely by debt. Let's say half. That's probably one of the worst offenders, but let's imagine there are around 10 more schools in a similar situation. Ok, 30k students out of around 4 million students graduating college each year in the US ... that's a tad less than 1%.

More than I thought, and enough to call "many", but perhaps still an acceptable level.

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