Would anybody like to play "Guess The Tuition"?

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<p>So I'm officially going to Clemson University next year (yay!) but there's still one thing I have no clue what I am going to have to pay for tuition next year till July. South Carolina, from what I have heard, is one of the leaders in cutting funding for higher education and the fact that the state is broke and refuses federal stimulus budget is startling.</p>

<p>Clemson refuses unlike other schools to give an estimate to what tuition is going to be next year. It would be nice to know so that I can find ways of how to cover that cost for next year.</p>

<p>Given the state of the economy in South Carolina, the cuts in higher education in the state and the historical increases in tuition I am going to post below, can anybody make a good guess as to what tuition would cost for an out-of-state student this coming year?</p>

<p>2009: ?
2008: $24,130
2007: $21,800
2006: $19,824
2005: $18,440
2004: $16,404
2003: $14,532
2002: $12,932
2001: $11,284
2000: $9,784</p>

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<p>$30,973</p>

<p>That is my final answer.</p>

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<p>Wow. Triple the cost in 9 years. That’s my guess… $29,352.</p>

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<p>wow really, you think the tuition will be as high as $29-30,000? that would mean that I would have to pay $37,000+ out of state at a state school. I really hope that’s not the case, Clemson needs to stay competitive with the other state schools in the area cost-wise because of it’s top 20 public universities quest</p>

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<p>id say anywhere from 0.00 to 99999999.99999999</p>

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<p>No, actually, I think it’ll be around 26k.</p>

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<p>$25,802.57</p>

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<p>$25,455.</p>

<p>The points are pretty linear when plotted. I did a pretty simple line reg on my calc. The equation gives back an r = .99826, which is pretty darn good. Not that the economy follows a linear regression, but whatever. And with that - I’m finished with Calculus homework (I wish we were doing this stuff in Calc).</p>

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<p>ok so sounds like 25 - 26 K, that’s not as bad as I thought, we’ll see in July though</p>

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<p>$26-27k. I think if they raised it by $6k in one year, then you’d see public outcry.</p>

<p>This is OOS tuition, right?</p>

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<p>Not having tuition set by the time students have to commit to attending I think is a bad reflection on how the school is run.</p>

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<p>well a lot of public schools don’t set tuition rates till the summer because they are not sure what the state budget will look like</p>

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<p>Modestmelody is absolutely right.</p>

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<p>no higher than $25,182</p>

<p>I say this as a placeholder meaning no higher than Georgia Tech, as Clemson is basically the next school under GT for public engineering/sciences.</p>

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<p>Pierre - Does financial aid figure into this?</p>

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<p>nope, I got no financial aid from Clemson so I’m paying the full cost</p>