Why is this?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Buffalo - SUNY
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<p>on the college board's web site, UB's average indebtedness upon graduation is $ 53,000 when all the other SUNY's are less than $ 20,000 and ridiculously expensive NYU and University of Rochester are less than $30,000... this seems to make no sense. Why is this?</p>

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<p>That is strange considering UB has very good FA! The only thing I can think of are the first professional degrees like PharmD - the costs are at grad level with not much FA other than loans but I bet those are included. It doesn’t make sense otherwise - it would mean that a significant number are borrowing the entire cost for 4 years!</p>

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<p>Okay, I looked up that average indebtedness on the UB and federal website and it’s under $20K on both. Looks like College Board just got it wrong, perhaps because UB’s Common Data Set for 07/08 and 08/09 are still incomplete!</p>

<p>Here’s a link to the 06/07 CDS and an exit survey they did with 07 & 08 grads:
<a href=“http://apb.buffalo.edu/facts/cds/cds2006.pdf[/url]”>http://apb.buffalo.edu/facts/cds/cds2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://apb.buffalo.edu/reports/briefs/studentexperiences/SeniorProfile2008.pdf[/url]”>http://apb.buffalo.edu/reports/briefs/studentexperiences/SeniorProfile2008.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>that’s wierd… it sounds like sk8rmom got it right… good job!</p>