Every year there are thousands of students planning and tracking their goals. Seniors in high school are faced with the tough challenge, while the Juniors are left to worry another year. Finally, the point comes a student’s life where they must make one of the most important decisions in their educational lifetime. That choice is, which college to attend, and it is a very scrutinous process. Two of such colleges are the University of Iowa and St. Ambrose University, and although similarities like majors and minors are evident, there are many other differences including student life. Everything comes with a price, especially college education. The University of Iowa’s webpage, 2013-2014 Undergraduate Cost of Attendance states that, “these expenses represent average amounts” (3). Most costs vary depending on duration and living plans for the students. For a student living on campus, the estimated total price is around $20,691. Tuition fees, and housing and meals, normally add up to be about $17,485, out of the total. Then there is the books, personal, and transportation fees which end up being $3,206. For many families, that ends up being quite a bit of money. But both schools allow the use of financial aid or even loans to pay for the college education. Just like University of Iowa, St. Ambrose University requires tuition and fees. Being a private school, the prices are a bit higher. For example the tuition for a full time student is $26,500. That number is without the added fees like books, personal, and transportation. The good thing about private schools is that there are bigger scholarships available. St. Ambrose’s webpage, Scholarships & Grants talks about the Ambrose Scholar, which is a scholarship that pays a studen... ... middle of paper ... ... universities have communal bathrooms like Iowa does, unless the student pays extra for a different dorm. In fact there are twenty nine different room choices, varying from $4,353 to $10,720. Most students have learned to live with communal bathrooms, but some find themselves incapable. At St. Ambrose University, the housing is mainly two bedrooms sharing one bathroom, instead of a communal bathroom. Private universities are mainly about giving a safe and supportive community that each resident can feel comfortable enough in to thrive. On top of the great housing, there are resident hall activities like volunteering. There are also over fifty clubs and after class activities available at St. Ambrose. There are academic, cultural, recreational and even more types of clubs and class activities available. St. Ambrose does its best to provide a home, away from home.
The OU Sooner Housing Center (SHC) is comprised of three housing facilities (The Jefferson House, The Jones House, and the Bud Wilkinson House) and a dining hall (The Wagner Dining Hall) which creates a family-like environment solely for residents. The Jefferson House houses all female residents, while the Jones House and Bud Wilkinson (referred to as “the Bud”) houses all males. The Wagner dining hall provides meals services only for students, faculty, and staff living in the three Sooner Housing Center. The first floor of the Bud is the “community center” which provides computers, a television, sitting areas, Ping-Pong and pool tables, a laundry room, and a main office. In the past, the Bud served only as athletic housing, but by 1996, the houses were converted to shared housing for both athlete (49%) and non-athlete (51%) “The change from all athletic housing to shared on-campus housing was originally mandated by the NCAA rules. As a result, the OU Athletics Department decided to take a creative approach and provide quality housing for all students” (Sooner Sports NP).
Iowa State University is a land grant school which, among other things, means that the university gets money from the state of Iowa from the taxes that residents pay to the state. Because of this in state residents who choose to go to the university do not have to pay a large amount of money while out-of-state residents have to pay almost twice as much. Iowa State University does not have reciprocity, meaning that even residents from the surrounding states, Minnesota, Illinois, etc., have to pay full out-of-state tuition. Out-of- state residents have to pay about $9000 a year for tuition, while Iowa residents pay only about $2500 per year. (See fig1 for semester costs)
As the high school chapter is coming to a close, many students have to make a decision that will affect the rest of their lives. Hopefully, for many that decision is to enroll in a college and attain a higher education. However, as tuition costs rise, students have to take a second look at their options for a better future. A community college is that second look for many because it is the less expensive option. From 2007-2009, enrollment for community colleges has increased by 24 percent (“College costs and the CPI”). Students aren’t choosing a college for educational purposes because they are overwhelmed by financial issues. They are attending community colleges so they will be able to graduate with a lower debt. Some seniors have wanted to attend a certain university all their life and they work toward that goal through grade school; however, they are hindered by soaring tuition for that college. Students should be able to attend a private university if they mee...
This a very weak reason to be considered because the Digest of Education Statistics mentions that, “For the 2013–14 academic year, annual current dollar prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board were estimated to be $15,640 at public institutions, $40,614 at private nonprofit institutions, and $23,135 at private for-profit institutions. Between 2003–04 and 2013–14, prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board at public institutions rose 34 percent, and prices at private nonprofit institutions rose 25 percent, after adjustment for inflation. The price for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board at private for-profit institutions decreased 16 percent between 2003–04 and 2013–14, after adjustment for inflation” (Tuition costs of colleges and universities). The data provided indicates that college education is really affordable and becomes cheaper if a person is eligible for grants and scholarships provided by the colleges, States and the federal government at large. There are so many grants, the most common throughout all colleges being Pell Grant, which lower the cost of a college
With the rise in tuition the cost of college is very expensive and not everyone can afford it. For the schools I want to attend the tuition is not to insane ,but not cheap. For A&M the tuition plus other fees, room & board, books, etc., is $21,581, for UT Austin it is $26,148, for UT Arlington it is $22,508 (College Costs - 2013-2014 - All Institutions 2013). The cost of the colleges are not cheap, but I can probably get by with financial aid. My brother is currently attending UT Arlington and almost all of his school is paid for by Financial aid and grants. The financial aid I receive should be of similar amount and I am also applying for many scholarships which my brother did not. If I am able to attend college without paying much for it I will have a very good cost vs. benefit.
Aquije, Omar. “Most Community Colleges say Building Dorms is Good Plan.” Glens Falls Post-Star, 13 August. 2011. Web. 7 Nov 2013.
The University I plan to attend to get my bachelor degree is Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU). It is a private christian university and located in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It has a 15:1 student faculty ratio and according to okbu.edu, “117 faculty members are all active christians.” To attend OBU it cost $33,990 and that includes tuition for the room, board and fees and that is fall and spring semester combined. 100% of all students at OBU get some sort of financial aid for their
Tuition at public universities should be made free, including but not limiting universities such as UNC Wilmington. One of the hardest aspects of attending a university among the average middle and lower class student is meeting the expenses of a college education. Based on recent statistics it costs around $15,522 to attend UNCW. Wilmington has about six million dollars aided annually, a great deal of that number encompassing the debt of student loans. This cost includes tuition, on campus room & board, books, and miscellaneous fees (“University of North Carolina Wilmington”).
The focus of this paper is to dispel a common view that community colleges do not provide on-campus housing and to provide greater insights into the types of community colleges that provide on-campus housing, the typical student who resides in on-campus housing, a guide to various California community colleges that provide on-campus housing, and the impact that on-campus housing has on student learning outcomes, financial gains for community colleges that provide on-campus housing, and an overview of the lack of data in the area of not only on-campus housing in community colleges, but community colleges at large. According to Cohen and Brawer (2008) access to student housing is one of the fundamental dissimilarities between public community colleges and four-year institutions of higher learning (p. 220). Cohen and Brawer (2008) take the position that community colleges lack the all-encompassing ability to appreciate the connectedness of community in the same fashion as that of four-year colleges or universities. Broader analysis of current data relating to on-campus housing in rural community colleges is three-fold. First, it exposes the lack of concrete observation or empirical data on the issues that surround community colleges with respect to on-campus housing. A wealth of data supports the learning outcomes, financial impact, gains, and drawbacks of on-campus housing, but from the vantage point of on-campus housing at the four year college or university level. Data shared were from several sources, one which dates back to 1998 and the other two from 2005 and 2006. With little research expected from community college faculty and administrators, the community college as a whole suffers from the lack of empirical studies wit...
The basic principle in which a student can be assigned a room on campus is simple: a certain faculty has a pre-established number of dormitory places in various buildings, and based on that number it assigns its rooms to the students who have obtained the highest grades in the previous academic year. There are some exceptions to this rules, as disabled, orphaned or senate and student council members have priority. However, this priority simply states that students belonging to the categories previously mentioned are guaranteed a place in a dorm, but not in a dorm with high comfort. Initially, the top students in a year (the number of students depends on how many rooms a certain faculty has) receive placement in the best dorms, such as Economica 1 and 2, Sport XII, or what is commonly known as the A dorms. This is often not the case, as the privileged often take these spots for themselves.
Living on your own for the first time can present some challenges, and for many residents, living at Point Park is their first time being on their own. Two important things that on-campus residents should know is how to respect their roommate(s) and taking care of their wellbeing. Many students who live on campus have never had to share a room before until this point. Unless a resident is living in a single, dorm life can open a whole new world of possibilities, as well as a world of challenges. Sharing a common space is difficult; people have different sleep schedules, cleanliness preferences, and interests. Sometimes, even the best of friends can turn into enemies as the dorm life becomes too overwhelming and suffocating. What residents need
...ents. I feel many students may have the same experience as me, so I interviewed my friend. According to my friend, if the dormitory has bigger rooms and cheaper prices, most of the students said that they preferred the dormitory to other apartments.
If you add that up with the tuition it would be $18,943 and for some have no choice but to live on campus because they don’t live close to it and don’t have transportation to get their everyday day so it leads them to pay that extra fee by living there and putting them in more debt. Then there are the books you need for the classes which is $1,146 on average a year for a student. Then all the extra stuff you need like food, gas, clothes etc. it keeps adding up. That is the problem every other year since 2000 college tuition has been rising and still is, in 2004 it was $4,805 since then it nearly doubled in cost. The price causes students to be in debt and usually for more students not to attend college due to it. Overall U.S. debt for college students is 1.2 trillion dollars and that’s insane and since 2004 it has been going up constantly and is not stopping anytime soon. Seventy percent of students graduate with college debt to pay back. Even with financial aid it still isn’t enough for families to send their kids off to college and sometimes it doesn’t go to the neediest kids instead going to the rich. A lot of college students have full-time or part-time jobs just to pay for extra needed stuff like books, food, gas, and tuition. Having a job because they have no other option or money to pay for stuff which takes away valuable time from their studies to
Public universities extend an array of beneficial qualities. To begin, the tuition of a public university is more affordable to the average student. College data explains that the average cost for instate residents is 9,650 dollars for a public university and an out of state resident is 24,930
The campus is located in Oklahoma city, Oklahoma. The cost per credit hour is $101. This is a relatively low cost compared to other colleges and universities in the area.