An-Cap Frog
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We've upped our tuition, so up yours...
Tuition up 6%
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Moose Stuff
Active Member
And that last part is why it keeps going up.
Horny 4 Life
Active Member
We've set aside an extraordinarily large amount of money (in comparison with the middle class folks we hang out with) for college costs for our kids, but sometimes I feel like even that won't be enough.
SirFrogsAlot
Active Member
The full time MBA program has really good scholarships. (Or at least it did) I was a TCU undergrad and chose to get my mba at TCU a little less than a decade after graduating and it was virtually free,
Bob Sugar
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The federal government will loan them the money, no questions asked.
Panther City Frog
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And then tell them they don’t have to pay it back.
HFrog1999
Member
Lots of students send applications to schools they know they can’t afford. My son applied to both TCU and SMU. Even if he got accepted there’s no way we could afford it.
HFrog1999
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Patterson was helping us out with that
HFrog1999
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You need to make some changes to your diet
Eight
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so this is a byproduct of replacing gary?
Gary's Shirtless Revenge
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Good news is this: Those with a "college degree" earn roughly $600k more over their career/lifetime vs. those with some type of an associates degree, and more than $1mm vs. those with a HS diploma.
That still gives schools like TCU a 2x roi argument vs. the overall alternative. TCU still has to compete with other cheaper schools, which they do on the basis of quality and experience, and so long as there are lots of rich people in our country that model will probably work out OK.
However, not all college degrees are created equal, and kids should be counseled on the values of said degrees vs. the cost of school prior to committing to any loans/etc... This is where I think the criticism is quite fair.
That still gives schools like TCU a 2x roi argument vs. the overall alternative. TCU still has to compete with other cheaper schools, which they do on the basis of quality and experience, and so long as there are lots of rich people in our country that model will probably work out OK.
However, not all college degrees are created equal, and kids should be counseled on the values of said degrees vs. the cost of school prior to committing to any loans/etc... This is where I think the criticism is quite fair.
HFrog1999
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HFrog1999
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Now do the ROI for a public University at 1/4 of the price.
Pharm Frog
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IMO — MBA programs should be funded by employers after an employee demonstrates the potential for increasing value within the organization. OR…funded by the individual who sees marketable opportunity gaps after some time in the workforce.
IMO — the cost of competing for an undergraduate degree should be less than half of what is being “charged”.
IMO — the cost of competing for an undergraduate degree should be less than half of what is being “charged”.
Rex Kramer
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That's the problem.
LVH
Active Member
The increases in tuition have nothing to do with the education and everything to do with lining administrator pockets, building new shiny buildings that aren't needed, and paying for a whole Diversity, Inclusion and Equity department
I make decent money these days, but what I do for a living has NOTHING to do with the degree I got from TCU. My degree was in journalism. After a few years of making less than $30k a year as a multi media journalist for radio and local TV, I learned to code and became a data scientist for the very TV stations I used to be a journalist for. Not only was I crunching numbers for TV related issues, but my work caught the attention of the political media campaigns I crunched numbers for that allowed me to do a lot work in political consulting and research as well.
The cheap online classes I took to learn to code yielded a HUGE ROI, while my journalism degree was negative ROI big time. Yeah the journalism degree got my foot in the door, but I would still be making probably $50k today if I never learned to code and remained an MMJ. That's the going rate for MMJs with 10 years of experience.
It's a huge rip off
