<p>Please give me a list of some top schools with a reasonable tuition. <30,000.</p>
<p>I know a few like Rice and many top LACs have pretty decent tuitions.</p>
<p>I assume you dont plan to get any financial aid?</p>
<p>Excluding or including room and board?</p>
<p>Yeah, let's say no financial aid and excluding room and board.</p>
<p>Check out some state schools. Even the University of Virginia out of state is quite cheap and combines great academics with great social life.</p>
<p>I agree about the state schools. For example...
UMich is $28,000 without room and board. I think Berkeley's about $26,000.</p>
<p>Rice U</p>
<p>Near 10K less that similar schools. They've got a huge endowment per student. They use this to lower tuition. Plus there is merit aid.</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh I missed where you already mentioned Rice ;)
Well oh well</p>
<p>Friend just graduated from Rice told me they have caught up to market and are not the bargain they used to be. :(</p>
<p>yikes! undergrad tuition/ total annual expenses
02-03 $17.55k/$25.9k
03-04 $18.85k/$27.68k
05-06 $23.3k/$32.7k
06-07 $26.5k/$38.9k</p>
<p>I think they hit up the new freshmen. Once you are in, the tuition hikes are capped for the 4 yrs, so every year freshmen are paying more than seniors.</p>
<p>The gap is narrowing, but it is still a considerable difference. The merit aid buys a lot of students over anyways haha</p>
<p>Texas-Austin is pretty darn low... ~$13K or less.</p>
<p>UNC-CH is ~$19,000</p>
<p>Tuition for out-of-state undergraduates at UCB and UCLA is ~$26,000.</p>
<p>Well if you're talking about excluding room and board and expenses, $30,000 for tuition is quite high. Take two schools with really high tuition: Harvard and NYU. Both have tuition hovering around $33,000. So, most schools would have tuition of under $30,000.</p>
<p>Anyway, why are we excluding financial aid? Some top schools tend to be very generous with aid, so you are encouraged to look past the sticker price, unless maybe you make a monstrous income, in which case the difference in price for college shouldn't matter that much anyway.</p>
<p>OOS tuition + fees at the Univeristy of Florida is about 17k/year (30 credit-hours). In-state it's only about 3K/year.</p>
<p>Check out Kiplinger's Best Values in Private Colleges:
<a href="http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/features/archives/2003/12/privatecollege.html?%5B/url%5D">http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/features/archives/2003/12/privatecollege.html?</a>
. . . and in Public Colleges: <a href="http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/magazine/archives/2006/02/colleges.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfinance/magazine/archives/2006/02/colleges.html</a></p>
<p>Each has a link to a table that lists the costs for all 100 of the institutions.</p>
<p>The top Canadian universities (McGill, UofT, UBC, Waterloo sciences/engineering), even with the rise of the canadian dollar in the last few year (though McGill isn't the bargain it used to be).</p>
<p>Thanks, guys. Those links helped gadad. Okay, take into account schools that offer merit-based aid. I wouldn't qualify for need-based.</p>
<p>From what I know, UMass is pretty good. The people I know paid an average of $20k (total expense) for their freshman year.</p>
<p>Where do you live? There might be a great state school in your state. OOPS... see that you live in Iowa. </p>
<p>Anyway, William and Mary and UVA, even Va Tech (a little lower in prestige, but still a great school), are public schools in VA with great National reputations. The students who are not from VA pay, I believe, in the low $30,000's for room, board and tuition. This must be a good deal, because they are all very popular schools for kids form NJ, NY, etc.</p>
<p>Maybe I am totally wrong, but there's just no way I'd incur huge debt when a fine state school is available for undergraduate work. Grad school, med school, law school, maybe - but that's different.</p>
<p>To hear about kids planning on dumping $30K or more per year into a private when a much less costly state school is available, just floors me. </p>
<p>Y'all better hope you have a huge income stream coming in from your degree to service all that debt. Then add a spouse, a house, taxes, car payments, retirement planning, children, medical expenses, insurance...</p>
<p>Not to rain on your parade, but debt is not something to incur if you can avoid it.</p>
<p>I'm an out-of-state student at UVa with no financial aid whatsoever and my tuition each year is around $22,000 (as opposed to $35,000 at a private school) and even with room & board it's less than $30,000.</p>