https://www.valuepenguin.com/student-loans/average-cost-of-c...
https://admission.ucla.edu/tuition-aid/tuition-fees 56k 9 months.
https://www.ohio.edu/financial-aid/cost
34k 9 months
9 months is considered 2 semesters.
per semester.
wouldn't consider ohio personally though. but beats your average by a good 30%. Not sure where it can get cheaper than Ohio.
UCLA is ~36k all-in / per academic year for in state students Ohio is ~24k all in / per academic year for in state students
It's not cheap or something you can cover on a part time job anymore but its nowhere near the numbers you are citing.
Apparently lots of places, since the national average is substantially lower than the Ohio numbers.
But, more importantly, both UCLA and Ohio University are flagship R1s. Likely literally every other public university in Ohio is cheaper than OU, and I'd be unsurprised if UCLA is one of the more expensive public options in CA (wouldn't know, never lived in CA).
e: sure enough, the total cost at Youngstown State is 22K (tuition 10K, the rest is food and housing).
As an aside, including room and board in college prices always struck me as a bit odd (except in cases where living in a dorm is required, I guess, but that's somewhat rare). Do non-college-students not eat/drink/sleep?
Colleges/Universities and expensive enough and screwed up enough that exaggeration isn't necessary.
2. Where are the stats?
3. Sure, many colleges are worth it too. State schools don’t cost 45k a semester. Don’t know how you can spread misinformation.
4. Community college can be very cheap, it depends on where you are and how poor you are so it’s hard to draw broad strokes here.
A degree is not required at all to start a business. Evidence: Microsoft, Dell.
1. Many trades also are your own business, and can immediately scale for income - many plumbers, electricians, etc are millionaires with a small team of employees less than 15.
2. Google offers free marketing certification for this reason as well, it's not impossible for marketing/seo people to make 100k annually. It's very, very common.
3. Many colleges are not worth it and is debt- look at most state schools and you'd see a semester costs minimum $45,000. Yes there's community colleges.
4. Even community colleges require loans, and have programs of financial aid that is really "apply for fafsa, apply for stanford loans and then have pipelines for private debt.