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If we charged the same tuition, we'd be #1

Let me clarify.....I think I would rather be 3rd with an affordable (relative) tuition than 1st with a higher tuition. In fact, I would not have degrees from UT if the tuition rates weren't reasonable.

Help me with Ut tuition verses A&M. Is our $9000 a semester and A&M $19000 a year?

I think the A&M number may be for the entire year. The Tribune has them at $8.5k a semester.

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/higher-education/texplainer-how-much-do-texas-public-universities-c/

Compare with:

UMich: $12,634
UVA: $12,224
Cal: $13,200

It's a question of whether you want UT to stand with those schools. Shockingly, some people in this state would like that.

8.5-9 a semester!! Wow you guys are getting so ripped off it's not even funny. American tuition rates are a joke. I pay 6K a year in tuition plus another thousand for books.

the student loan bubble is attributable to the for-profit universities that exist on federally subsidized loan programs and churning out worthless pieces of paper they call "degrees".

Lulz at the downvote. Univerisities are getting away with robbery charging those prices. I can't believe you guys aren't more upset.

I work and I am a student at a UT campus and students are not getting robbed at those prices.

UT Austin is around 7.2 billion

as a total baby boomer, may i say you are absolutely correct. The title of that book, The Greatest Generation was clearly NOT written about us. I see the selfishness and greed in my generation and our politicians and it sickens me. This student loan thing is just amazing to me. I paid no attention to it at all until the recent controversy about the interest rates escalating. Once i started paying attention i was just floored by the burden that you younger people face now getting an education.

what happened to parents. My parent paid my way through law school. Ok, i worked some. I worked nights at St. Davids Hospital, i played trumpet gigs when i could get them. But the bulk of what i did was paid by my parents. They did the same for my brother who has a phd in Chemical engineering (at least one smart guy in the family). And my parents were the middle of middle class. No wealth there at all.

i paid for my sons education at Loyola in New Orleans. (and apparently some drinking and partying as well but hey, i should have paid better attention- plus its NOLA)

leaving students now to handle these loans in amounts that are equal to a mortgage on a home when they get out and just start working is not an acceptable way of handling education costs n a country that wants to be the cutting edge leader in technology and commerce.

so yes, shame on me for not paying attention and shame on my generation for allowing this.

and Mods, my apologies for this rant. I shall now return to football, i promise

Thanks, that is how I read it.