Filed in archive Education by Justin McHenry on May 29, 2007 I always read about the increasing costs of college, but, as it s been a while since I ve been collegiate myself, I decided to do a little investigation on the actual numbers. So, below I offer the estimated tuition and total costs of a year of college at various state and private universities in the United States. I got this info straight from the colleges Web sites, and each college breaks things out a little differently, with some lumping tuition and fees and others breaking things out in a more detailed fashion, so this is not a strict apples-to-apples comparison.
Also, I offer no substantiation that this is scientific in any way. In addition, I chose schools completely at random, meaning any other school you could think of was not researched at all. This is simply a way to get an idea of what a year of schooling costs.
For state schools I offer both in-state and out-of-state estimates. While I show tuition numbers, I think the more relevant numbers are the overall cost estimates, which take into account room and board, meal plans, books and other potential expenses. Here we go: University of Oklahoma: In-State Tuition: $5,709, Overall yearly cost: $13,671 (Out of state: $13,998 tuition, $21,960 overall) University of Florida: In-State Tuition: 3,330 Overall yearly cost: $14,370.
