Differing tuition cost between collegeboard and the college website

Paying for College
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<p>So I am comparing CSU Long Beach and San Diego State, and I find that LB states tuition is around 2.3k and sdsu says its 7k.</p>

<p>Well I check with collegeboard and it says both are around 6000. What is going on? Checked both were undergrad and it was just tuition and fees. Why is it so different?</p>

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<p>They all have the same standard rate. Fees vary.
<a href=“http://www.calstate.edu/sas/documents/2011-12COA.pdf[/url]”>http://www.calstate.edu/sas/documents/2011-12COA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>When in doubt…the thing to do is use the information posted by the COLLEGE on their website.</p>

<p>Emerald is correct. The tuition is the same…but the fees vary.</p>

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<p>“So I am comparing CSU Long Beach and San Diego State, and I find that LB states tuition is around 2.3k and sdsu says its 7k.”</p>

<p>Long Beach’s tuition is much higher than that. You must be looking at the semester rate…</p>

<p>Per semester</p>

<p>Tuition and Fees - 3,120 <---- that’s the per semester cost per the CSULB website.</p>

<p>The tuition and fees per year would be twice that amount…about 6,300 per year.</p>

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<p>Yeah I caught my mistake a little early on before your post. But thanks for responding. I thought I was going crazy lol.</p>

<p>Problem solved</p>

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<p>My dad used to say “get the information straight from the horse’s mouth”…don’t ask me where that expression came from…but get your info from the college not from a third party website.</p>

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<p>^^^</p>

<p>True…but many kids get mixed-up when the school’s website is stating “semester costs” or (worse!) quarter cost…and the kid thinks that is “per year”. </p>

<p>Can you imagine a student going as far as accepting/enrolling during the May 1st deadline and declining other offers only to find out later that he was looking at “semester costs” instead of “yearly costs”???</p>