how much did your undergraduate college education cost?

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#1  Edited By DriveupLife

Leaving college in two months, finally coming to terms with how my repayment schedule is going to look. 
 
If you're willing, post the cost of your first bachelor's degree. I'll begin, since I don't think anyone is going to beat my number. Also post the name of the school you attended, and the degree you received. This is the whole package that you owe, not necessarily every single cost of the degree like books etc.
 
University of Miami (private) 
bachelors of science in Industrial Engineering
 $143,000.00

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#2  Edited By Andorski

University of California, Irvine
Bachelors of Science in Biology 
$96,000 
 
[edit] I have this weird feeling that someone is going to use this small amount of information to perform identity theft on me now.

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#3  Edited By Punk1984

Washburn University
Bachelors of Arts (Advertising)
$44,000 (w/o plus loan)

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#4  Edited By dantheman1515

UCSB Physics, 120,000.

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#5  Edited By nintendoeats

I did one year at Northwestern, 40 grand. Now I'm at a Canadian school, a much more not insane 10 grand a year.

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#6  Edited By roc_553
@nintendoeats: What school?
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#7  Edited By nintendoeats
@roc_553: Dalhousie in Nova Scotia.
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#8  Edited By citizenkane
@DriveupLife:  My brother went to undergrad at University of Miami.  Yeah, it's pretty expensive.  Then my sister went to Tulane University, which ran about $160,000.
 
Me, public junior college and now public university at zero cost (Thank you, Florida Bright Futures Scholarship).
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#9  Edited By roc_553
@nintendoeats: Cool. Also, no offense, but I chuckled a little bit when the first thing I saw on their website was curling. 
 
As for me, I'm finishing my second year at a local community college. Maybe I'll transfer somewhere expensive.
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#10  Edited By Turambar

University of Wisconsin - Madison.
 
Was bout 7k per semester.  Just about debt free in another half a year of working.

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#11  Edited By Gav47

Holy fuck, thank god college is free in Ireland, the most I've ever had to pay was €1500 per year. Although the new government is talking about implementing a graduate tax.

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#12  Edited By NeVeRMoRe666
@DriveupLife:  My undergrad was probably a little bit under $24 000, altogether. 
 
Law School is $12 500 a year.
 
God, I love Canada. Socialism rocks. :P
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#13  Edited By lilburtonboy7489
@Turambar said:
" University of Wisconsin - Madison.  Was bout 7k per semester.  Just about debt free in another half a year of working. "
hey that's where i go!
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#14  Edited By BigLemon
@NeVeRMoRe666 said:
"Law School is $12 500 a year.  God, I love Canada. Socialism rocks. :P "
My mouth is agape at that low, low number.... 
 
I must move to Canada
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#15  Edited By Afroman269

Finishing up an Associates in Social/Behavioral Sciences here at a community college in Maryland for I guess $0. Just had to pay for books. 
 
@CitizenKane
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Me, public junior college and now public university at zero cost (Thank you, Florida Bright Futures Scholarship). "
I'm kinda tempted to move back to Florida once I start working on a Bachelor's because my parents have been investing in one of those Florida college prepaid plans, it will make things easier to just go to a college down there. 
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#16  Edited By Demyx

Oh god, its sooo much. I don't even want to post it :(
I got Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Its like 200K a year not including scholar ships and loans.

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#17  Edited By Phantom

Here in Australia I am accruing a debt of roughly AU $8,000 per year,  my course is only three years and I can defer the fees because the Australian Government has a scheme of low interest loans to students- the loan will be paid back through a tax when my income is high enough. 
 
Note: $8k Australian= ~$8k US

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#18  Edited By NeVeRMoRe666
@BigLemon:  Unfortunately, government support for tuition is only open to Canadian citizens. International students still pay out of the ass...but it's probably still cheaper than going to College/University in the states. 
 
Getting a JD here though, at least in my opinion, is still more worthwhile than going to the States. We only have ~12 schools, so the market is widely available; the articuling rate at my school is at or around 98%. I had thought briefly of studying at NYU or Georgetown, but I couldn't get over the cost.
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#19  Edited By JazzyJeff

I'm sorry, but there is a serious problem when a decent college education costs people over $100,000. The education system here (U.S.) is just busted.

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#20  Edited By one_2nd
@NeVeRMoRe666 said:
" @DriveupLife:  My undergrad was probably a little bit under $24 000, altogether.   Law School is $12 500 a year.  God, I love Canada. Socialism rocks. :P "
canada is socialist? the fuck?
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#21  Edited By scarace360
@one_2nd said:
" @NeVeRMoRe666 said:
" @DriveupLife:  My undergrad was probably a little bit under $24 000, altogether.   Law School is $12 500 a year.  God, I love Canada. Socialism rocks. :P "
canada is socialist? the fuck? "
We are kinda socalist but you know what canada is bad ass.
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#22  Edited By Patman99

For an undergraduate degree in anthropology at University of Victoria, it is around $5,000 a year... and people here complain that tuition is too high... bastards.

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#23  Edited By MikeOfAllTrades

University of Minnesota 
Computer Science 
$90,000 
 
Very proud that I've managed to pay off half of that in 4 years after graduation without ever moving back in with the 'rents or receiving help from anyone.  It'll be nice to actually start saving once this weight is off my shoulders.

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#24  Edited By Amilmitt

Art Institute of Vancouver
3D modeling for animation and games
$50,000 for a 21 month program.
 
its actually a very grueling program, so much so that getting a part time job is out of the question unless i have a death wish.

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#25  Edited By Vodun

Bachelor in Media informatics @ Kirstianstad Högskola - Cost: FREE
Master in Interaction design @ Malmö Högskola - Cost: FREE
 
Swedish education baby! They even pay you around $200-$300 a month just for studying.

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#26  Edited By CptChiken

My university course at Leeds (uk) is £3450 a year.

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#27  Edited By Icemael

Nothing. Studying is free in Sweden.

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#28  Edited By Vinny_Says
@Vodun said:
" Bachelor in Media informatics @ Kirstianstad Högskola - Cost: FREEMaster in Interaction design @ Malmö Högskola - Cost: FREE Swedish education baby! They even pay you around $200-$300 a month just for studying. "
@Icemael said:
" Nothing. Studying is free in Sweden. "
I now officially hate Sweden.
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#29  Edited By Vodun
@blacklabeldomm: Hey, it aint all great. We also have surströmming and djungelvrål.
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#30  Edited By Nick

I'm at University of British Columbia, in Vancouver Canada. It's about $5000 per year not including the cost of books.
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#31  Edited By Tordah
@Icemael said:
" Nothing. Studying is free in Sweden. "
Likewise here in Finland. Actually, I get paid to study.
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$15,000 NZ in course fees so far and around $12,000 NZ to go. 
 
At the University of Auckland, originally studying Electrical Engineering, but switched over to Software Engineering.

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#33  Edited By iSylence

Massey University, New Zealand
BInfSc joint major Computer Science and Information Technology.
About $16,000 :) 
Lived with my parents and didn't have to pay rent. Our government subsidises a lot of it and we have interest free loans. New Zealand is pretty awesome, you should come.
 
Edit: Sweden does sound a bit cooler though lol. I get paid a bit from the government to study but not that much. Still gotta pay the course fees each year too.

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#34  Edited By dagas

I paid 6000 CAD per semester in Canada for a year and then I said F it and went home to Sweden to study for free. It was a great experience, but it wasn't worth that much money and my scholarship only covered roughly 1/3 to 1/2 of the tuition cost. Still I have €30k in student loans because even though school is free you still have to pay rent, buy food etc.

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#35  Edited By Xeiphyer

Its costing me around $7000/year currently, so not too bad. Probably going to end up somewhere around $30,000.

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#36  Edited By Hourai
@Nick said:
" I'm at University of British Columbia, in Vancouver Canada. It's about $5000 per year not including the cost of books. "
I'm going there in a year or so. Any idea how much a room costs?
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#37  Edited By nick_verissimo

My soul, my social life and my regimented sleep schedule.

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#38  Edited By Ben99

they pay us here for education. seriously .

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#39  Edited By owl_of_minerva

Nothing. In Australia you can defer payments until you earn over a certain amount, in which case it will be subtracted from one's salary.

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#40  Edited By MudMan

Spanish here. Not really the same system, but my 5 year degree went for about 3000 euros.  Not per year, the whole thing. 
 
It was kind of annoying, because my family did not qualify to get that for free by so little (only a tiny bit over the income level at which higher education stops being free and you even get some money to pay for books and rent).

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#41  Edited By marc

Some of the prices here are nuts :S
 
Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland. 
Computer Engineering
6 years of schooling
School expenses when all said and done will be roughly $25,000
I'm $8000 in the hole with student loans now 2 years in. I get enough grants along with my student loans to pay living expenses, and in Newfoundland there is ZERO interest on student loans.
 
There are also paid work terms starting in year 4, and they pay well enough such that loans aren't needed anymore, so really my debt will be under $20K when I finish.

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#42  Edited By Cramsy
@owl_of_minerva said:
" Nothing. In Australia you can defer payments until you earn over a certain amount, in which case it will be subtracted from one's salary. "
HECS SUP!? 
 
Journalism degree is going to be about 20k or something. Don't have to worry about that for a while though.
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#43  Edited By Sogeman

Right now I'm paying 16,5€ (that doesn't go to the University, it's wasted on stupid student groups who waste it on useless gender studies and shit) a semester. I'm in my 4th. After the 8th I'd have to pay something over 300€/semester. The majority of the money I spend is on train tickets (55€/month) and the subway ticket (50€/4 months). And anything I might need like books and shit.
 
They are thinking about putting the 300€/semster in place from the start though.

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#44  Edited By DEllen

£0. Scotland Is awesome. University is still free for Scottish and international students. 

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#45  Edited By Geno

Undergrad tuiton+books ~$20,000. Overall (rent, food, bank interest, luxuries, necessities etc) ~$40,000. Biochemistry major. 

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#46  Edited By ebritt

In the UK my fees alone will be £10,000 for all three years then there is living costs etc which is running at about £6k a year at least (london is expensive) but this all pales in comparison to what some students in the US have to pay. Even when the fees rise to £9,000 a year for england students its going to be tiny in comparison.

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#47  Edited By SirBlimE

Like sweden and finland, we get paid to go to school in Denmark.

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#48  Edited By DelroyLindo

I go to University in Scotland. So after 5 years of study I don't have to pay a single thing, the government funds university for all Scottish people who study in Scotland. Win.

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#49  Edited By jaak170

I can't believe what I see here :) I didn't know that education in the US cost that much. I live in Estonia (a neighbouring country of Finland and Sweden too basically) and education doesn't cost anything here too. 

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#50  Edited By Bollard

I'm looking at about a £50,000 debt coming out of Uni thanks to the current government! Thanks for that. Fees of £9000 a year is awesome.  
 
But it's crazy how much the costs vary! From $150,000 to free in most European countries seemingly. Madness.