PS - why is Va Tech COA like $5k lower than UVA (at least for engineering)?

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Anonymous wrote:Is Virginia cheap about funding its in-state colleges? What drives the cost of these schools to be more expensive than some of their comparators?

We're cheap and the funding goes down every year.

Call your reps. Vote accordingly.

UVA has a $13.6B endowment. They don’t want too much meddling from the state. UVA wants to do things their way. Always have.

Then they should use their endowment to lower tuition prices, don't you think?

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Anonymous wrote:In-state cost for UVA School of Engineering is more than 50K per year now. How ridiculous!

Not ridiculous. Your other options are OOS at publics like UCLA (76k+) and Berkekey at ($78+). Privates like USC are over $90k a year. Don't like it? Go to the community college and take advantage of the guaranteed transfer program.

UVA already is discounting in-state costs (engineering is an expensive program!). College is a luxury, it is not a promise to your kid. Have them work for a gap year if need be.

But stop haranguing in this point. Clearly you have a sour grapes issue with UVA engineering because you keep raising this bizarre fact.

And for non-engineering types (the vast majority), UVA's COA for its most popular College of Arts & Sciences, all in, is only $40k ... still an extraordinary benefit when compared to OOS and private tuitions

The original OP here.

Your comment is really condescending and unwarranted. You don't know me or my kid. UVA could be a reach or a safety school for my kid. I could afford a full price tag of USC or I need a 100% financial assistance even for a community college. You don't get to lecture me how I, or other DCUMers, plan for kid's college.

I am just stating a fact that the In-state cost (tuition+ all others) of UVA is WAY higher than the In-state cost of other flagship state universities. There is no point to compare it to the OOS of other universities. Even so, you will find it is actually very close to the OOS costs of Georgia Tech or NCSU. For a public university, the In-state cost should be more affordable for the state taxpayers.

It is really hard to understand where your condescending attitude come from.

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Anonymous wrote:In-state cost for UVA School of Engineering is more than 50K per year now. How ridiculous!

Not ridiculous. Your other options are OOS at publics like UCLA (76k+) and Berkekey at ($78+). Privates like USC are over $90k a year. Don't like it? Go to the community college and take advantage of the guaranteed transfer program.

UVA already is discounting in-state costs (engineering is an expensive program!). College is a luxury, it is not a promise to your kid. Have them work for a gap year if need be.

But stop haranguing in this point. Clearly you have a sour grapes issue with UVA engineering because you keep raising this bizarre fact.

And for non-engineering types (the vast majority), UVA's COA for its most popular College of Arts & Sciences, all in, is only $40k ... still an extraordinary benefit when compared to OOS and private tuitions

The original OP here.

Your comment is really condescending and unwarranted. You don't know me or my kid. UVA could be a reach or a safety school for my kid. I could afford a full price tag of USC or I need a 100% financial assistance even for a community college. You don't get to lecture me how I, or other DCUMers, plan for kid's college.

I am just stating a fact that the In-state cost (tuition+ all others) of UVA is WAY higher than the In-state cost of other flagship state universities. There is no point to compare it to the OOS of other universities. Even so, you will find it is actually very close to the OOS costs of Georgia Tech or NCSU. For a public university, the In-state cost should be more affordable for the state taxpayers.

It is really hard to understand where your condescending attitude come from.

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Anonymous wrote:In-state cost for UVA School of Engineering is more than 50K per year now. How ridiculous!

Not ridiculous. Your other options are OOS at publics like UCLA (76k+) and Berkekey at ($78+). Privates like USC are over $90k a year. Don't like it? Go to the community college and take advantage of the guaranteed transfer program.

UVA already is discounting in-state costs (engineering is an expensive program!). College is a luxury, it is not a promise to your kid. Have them work for a gap year if need be.

But stop haranguing in this point. Clearly you have a sour grapes issue with UVA engineering because you keep raising this bizarre fact.

And for non-engineering types (the vast majority), UVA's COA for its most popular College of Arts & Sciences, all in, is only $40k ... still an extraordinary benefit when compared to OOS and private tuitions

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Virginia cheap about funding its in-state colleges? What drives the cost of these schools to be more expensive than some of their comparators?

We're cheap and the funding goes down every year.

Call your reps. Vote accordingly.

UVA has a $13.6B endowment. They don’t want too much meddling from the state. UVA wants to do things their way. Always have.

Then they should use their endowment to lower tuition prices, don't you think?

Anonymous wrote:UVA basically was a law school for 200 years, which then tried to rebrand itself as a liberal arts school by branching out in the sciences. Thus they think they can charge premium for engineering.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Virginia cheap about funding its in-state colleges? What drives the cost of these schools to be more expensive than some of their comparators?

We're cheap and the funding goes down every year.

Call your reps. Vote accordingly.

UVA has a $13.6B endowment. They don’t want too much meddling from the state. UVA wants to do things their way. Always have.

Anonymous wrote:UVA engineering surcharge is absurd. Virginia tech engineering surcharge is 2000 and UVA is 10,000.

Anonymous wrote:UVA basically was a law school for 200 years, which then tried to rebrand itself as a liberal arts school by branching out in the sciences. Thus they think they can charge premium for engineering.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In-state cost for UVA School of Engineering is more than 50K per year now. How ridiculous!

Not ridiculous. Your other options are OOS at publics like UCLA (76k+) and Berkekey at ($78+). Privates like USC are over $90k a year. Don't like it? Go to the community college and take advantage of the guaranteed transfer program.

UVA already is discounting in-state costs (engineering is an expensive program!). College is a luxury, it is not a promise to your kid. Have them work for a gap year if need be.

But stop haranguing in this point. Clearly you have a sour grapes issue with UVA engineering because you keep raising this bizarre fact.

And for non-engineering types (the vast majority), UVA's COA for its most popular College of Arts & Sciences, all in, is only $40k ... still an extraordinary benefit when compared to OOS and private tuitions

Well stated. The op is the same poster who harps about the cost (which I find reasonable, btw) in other threads. My hunch is her/his own kid did not get in.

My kid is at UVA and we’ve spent a fraction of what the school provides as estimates for books, materials, equipment and personal expenses saving us thousands p/year. Also saving on housing and food living off campus.