Sunday, December 10, 2006

College education Grad School is expensive

I just checked my student invoice statement. Tuition and fees I incurred since my first year of the PhD program is ~US$100,000, and still counting rising.

That is more than twice the cost of my undergraduate education.

(Figures exclude miscellaneous expenses such as housing rent and food - the two most important out-of-lab costs for grad students.)

On the other hand, a sizable number of alumni (fresh PhD graduates) from this department made that amount with one year's of work in industry.
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3 comments:

  1. L'oiseau rebelle6:42 PM, December 10, 2006

    Yeah, but you didn't pay a cent of that 100K.

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  2. 03S1710:30 PM, December 10, 2006

    Is the rest of the years of grad sch paid for by your uni?

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  3. takchek10:07 AM, December 11, 2006

    lr: Still, someone else did.

    joseph: By my dept, and my advisor. Thankfully for Grad school, there's this thing called 'tuition waiver'.

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