<p>10 states where college is most expensive</p>
<p>10</a> states where college is most expensive - Slide Show - MarketWatch</p>
<p>Looks like it is comparing based on list price tuition. If one accounts for net price after financial aid or student debt levels, the list may be different. Delaware and Pennsylvania appear to take the booby prize in having lots of schools where students run up a lot of debt, with New Jersey also in the running.</p>
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<p>It’s an odd article. We did plenty of research on OOS public universities, and U of South Carolina and UDel seemed like bargains on that front.</p>
<p>Why aren’t the UCs on that list. They are MIGHTY costly for instate and OOS students.</p>
<p>The number the ranking is based on is an average of all publics in a state. The CSUs bring that average down considerably. Don’t know if it’s a weighted average by enrollment.</p>
<p>I don’t know why it discussed OOS costs at all, seems irrelevant to the purpose of the list.</p>
<p>Well…then the article is misleading. States like CA have TONS of public universities, some at very modest costs. South Carolina does NOT have a large number of public universities, and they all cost about the same. Ditto Deleware. </p>
<p>The article specifically mentions U of South Carolina. if they are averaging ALL SC schools, might it not have been better to list ALL of the publics in the state, and the prices of all?</p>
<p>They all talked about the flagship in the stories. Listing every public in the states would have been very wordy. Why would a school other than USC or Clemson cost as much? That seems strange and unusual but the state’s choice. Wyoming only has one public 4-year and as the first slide says, it’s very inexpensive for tuition and fees.</p>
<p>As for aid not being factored in, that this is from the WSJ they probably were targeting their audience which mostly isn’t going to get need-based aid from an instate public.</p>
<p>Also, it’s one of those quickie fluff pieces, not an in-depth analysis, but the usual suspects are on the list(PA,IL,NJ).</p>
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<p>There are more CSUs than UCs, and more students in CSUs than UCs, and CSUs are relatively inexpensive for list price tuition.</p>
<p>Also (though not accounted for in a list price analysis), typical net price after financial aid is relatively low for California residents in CSUs and UCs, since in-state financial aid is relatively good, unlike some other states like Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Of course, the net prices that an individual student finds may not order the cost the same way that overall averages order the cost.</p>
<p>The costs shown are clearly not the costs for the state flagship shown in the article. The average cost for Illinois is shown as $12,550. In-state tuition and fees at UIUC range from $15,258 to $20,178, depending on major. A business or engineering major at UIUC will pay over 60% more than the average shown for Illinois. And that’s a mighty big difference.</p>
<p>According to MLive, the state’s higher education budget has dropped by over 11% since Gov. Rick Snyder was elected. As of 2011, Michigan spent under $4,000 per public fully enrolled student, one of the lowest figures in the nation.</p>
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<p>They forgot to mention how much the state education budget was cut in the years leading up to Snyder’s governorship. This ain’t a new thing around here.</p>