<p>Hey all, as I am considering going back to university (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1355106-28-years-old-want-get-engineering-cs-degree-should-i-point.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1355106-28-years-old-want-get-engineering-cs-degree-should-i-point.html</a>) I am wondering about the debt load I will have. Right now, I have roughly around $30K in student loans. This was a result of when I attended RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) for about two years. In hindsight I was incredibly ignorant then and probably should have considered a cheaper school, so maybe inadverdently I lucked out by having bombed out. </p>
<p>Anyhow, to go back to university, I was looking to University at Buffalo, which has tuition at about $5,000 a year (although that’s just tuition, but still low compared to RIT’s $30K a year tuition). I am not sure about total yearly cost because some websites say “tuition + fees” at U@B cost about $7,000 a year, while one part of their website says it costs about $14,000 a year, but that might be for expenses that I can cut out. So in combination with community college for two years, which would be about $5,000 a year I think, and then two years at university, that would be, assuming $14K year, a total of $38K. If $7K, it’d be a total of $24K (unless I could get some type of financial aid and/or scholarships, which I don’t know).</p>
<p>Added onto my existing debt however, that would make either $54K or $68K upon graduating in total (!!!). Would that still be too high to manage for a fresh graduate in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or computer science (the majors I am considering)? $54K I think I could handle, but $68K sounds like too much I think. I am thinking that, stretching it, I could attend U@B for roughly $7K a year, so I’d have the $54K, and with financial aid or scholarships maybe, get it to even lower then that.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>