The 60% increase is a lot but comparing the housing and food to our kid at UMD and it right around that $17k number as well. UMD food is about $6k and housing about $11k. I think the food comes out to about $23/day which seems reasonable these days and $11k for about 10 months of housing seems to be on par with the market. |
VT still cheaper at full price than Pitt, Penn, University of Maryland at College Park and UVA so they can raise prices. |
Um, VT already is competitive with the schools you mention. Higher ranked than one of them, in fact. |
Yes it’s so weird that a school the size of UVA doesn’t have better food. |
To be clear, you’re talking about UVA? The food there is notoriously awful. |
Why should they offer housing at bellow market rate? The local slum lords hold more sway than parents who will be gone in anther couple years. At base the issue is that government really doesn't subsidize higher education the way it did for previous generations. If the school can charge more, they will. |
My VT kid eats better there than she does at home. I despise grocery shopping and cooking so I am glad to pay it. |
Thats crazy mine are at ivies and pay less for dorms and they have singles |
Land is way more pricey by GMU than by Tech. |
Tech would be exactly on par with JMU if it weren’t for their engineering school. |
VTs business school is world's better than JMU too. |
JMU showed up in the top 20 among public schools in the WSJ list of highest incomes for graduates working in accounting and management consulting. VT only for management consulting. |
VT also didn't show up in the top 20 for graduate salaries in technology, engineering, data science, or software development in the WSJ lists. |
Yet WSJ ranked VA Tech #1 overall of all Virginia schools. |
Let me see, pay levels of actual graduates vs a list put together to try to compete with USNWR. |