An interesting, short article on the student fees being appended, on top of tuition, to undergraduates’ (or, it would be more truthful to say, their parents’) college bills.
The opening example, the University of Oregon, is pretty astounding: Tuition is almost $4,000; fees are $1,500, about 40% of the tuition rate!
And this tidbit is just absurd:
George Washington University became the first college to break the $50,000 mark when it approved for the class of 2011 tuition of $39,210, a food allowance of $3,400 and housing prices of $8,500.
Not even the Princeton-Harvard-Yale set charge that much; where on earth does GWU (ranked 54th in U.S. News, not that anyone’s keeping track…) get off stiffing its enormous number of students for $200,000+ for a four-year degree?! I think I’d take U-Oregon, notwithstanding its shady fees.