SMU tuition and cost 2012-2013 $55,475

[CalallenStang]

TCU ain't cheap: $46,000.

Baylor's $22,000...

TCU $46,350

Baylor $44,988

[RednBlue11]

$55,475

http://www.smu.edu/Admission/FinancialAid/Costs


WOW.

That is simply insane.

could not agree more.

[RednBlue11]

Its also pretty average for top tier private universities. Overlooked is the fact that the vast majority of students receive some level of financial assistance.

not sure what part about being ranked 62nd makes us top tier!

[RednBlue11]

Whoa...

More than:

Stanford $54,500
Yale $52,700
Harvard $54,496
Brown $46,000
Princeton $54,780
Cornell $43,185

these are actually base tuition costs, add 12-20k for attendance costs.

[CalallenStang]

Whoa...

More than:

Stanford $54,500
Yale $52,700
Harvard $54,496
Brown $46,000
Princeton $54,780
Cornell $43,185

these are actually base tuition costs, add 12-20k for attendance costs.

I posted cost of attendance figures already; those weren't base tuition costs either so my guess is it is old COA figures from a few years ago

[NavyCrimson]

Just wait till, & hopefully soon, the college tuition cost bubble burst & all these will be adjusted - DOWNWARD!!! It's coming because the country is broke!!!

[couch 'em]

Just keep taking out bigger student loans. I love them because it prevents wealth accumulation on the young, thus making the collapse of the baby boomer house of cards they built for themselves sooner.

Get ready, olds. Your greed is coming back to bite you-if you live that long.

[NavyCrimson]

Absolutely correct. The younger generation is only screwing themselves but then again - they keep voting for the people who created this mess in the first place! LOL!!!

[RednBlue11]

Absolutely correct. The younger generation is only screwing themselves but then again - they keep voting for the people who created this mess in the first place! LOL!!!

i disagree, roughly a 1/4 of people of voting age under 24 vote at all, its the septuagenarians and the like who are crippling us by voting for corrupt hacks.

AND, how do you propose that we sustain a professional workforce in a service economy if it takes a lifetime of debt to just get an entry level job? AND that is provided an individual can even secure the proper financing, those people who cannot aren't even being counted here, which is far more people and far more damaging to the future of our economy in that the purchasing power of an entire generation is getting hamstrung by the totally over inflated cost of a college education.

[couch 'em]

If they wanted a real stimulus for trillions of dollars they should have just paid off student loans. SL debt exceeds credit card debt. Think about how much otherwise discretionary spending gets sent to banks to pay interest each month.

[bubba pony]

Government to pay off student loans? Then refund me what I paid for my daughter's SMU education as well. Otherwise we would have gone into loan debt if it was to be forgiven. We made sacrifices to make the payments up front.

[mrydel]

I see people abusing the student loan system on a daily basis. They use the loans to live on, take vacations, party, etc. and have no intention of ever paying it back. They continually put them into government approved forebearance and then sign up for a couple of more classes and get some more. I had a lady living on $680/month in SS disability and subsidized section8 housing. She signs up for 2 classes a semester and gets about $5,000. She is up to $65,000 and shows no sign of stopping. Yet by governement guidelines I had to make her a home loan. Until the system is brought under control or done away with it is a waste of the tax payers money,

[CA Mustang]

The younger generation is only screwing themselves but then again - they keep voting for the people who created this mess in the first place! LOL!!!

How are kids in HS and college responsible for the soaring costs of tuition?

[RednBlue11]

$55,475

http://www.smu.edu/Admission/FinancialAid/Costs


WOW.

That is simply insane.

Ridiculous doesn't begin to describe this number.

Sent from my Android, better than your iPhone that doesn't have real 4G.

IHSV

[RednBlue11]

The younger generation is only screwing themselves but then again - they keep voting for the people who created this mess in the first place! LOL!!!

How are kids in HS and college responsible for the soaring costs of tuition?

He thinks 16, 17, and 18 yr olds vote, or out vote any other age demographic

Sent from my Android, better than your iPhone that doesn't have real 4G.

IHSV