If you're curious - The most expensive colleges in each state

[packman]

Larger zoomable map at:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/x7ra90/oc_the_most_expensive_college_or_university_in/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Yay money! Yay power! Yay elite networking!

Financial aid taught colleges they could raise prices forever

[Xoan]

2. Reagan and his pals taught students ...

that government wasnt there to help them.

[jimfields33]

4. 63 thousand for a year of college is insane. Columbia should be ashamed and embarrassed.

Absolutely no reason for it to be that expensive. Reagan had a great congress obviously.

[MichMan]

9. The House was Democratic for the entirety of Reagan's two terms

[jimfields33]

10. Wow. Times were different. They gave Reagan everything he wanted.

[MichMan]

3. You think it is expensive now, just wait

Now that the amount people have to pay back is capped, colleges will raise their tuition to the maximum amount students are allowed to borrow. Taxpayers will be stuck paying the difference.

[Raftergirl]

5. Those costs are only tuition. Room and board is not included.

My kid went to Bates in Maine.

Total cost of attendance his last year (2015) was $63k.

It’s now up to $75,680.

It’s a residential college (as is Colby the most expensive college in Maine according to the article.) Colby’s COA is $76,425.

Add another $15k-$20k to every school on that map to get the true cost.

The prices listed on the map do not include room and board.

These are colleges where everyone lives on campus all 4 years.

Tbs, most of these colleges have great institution aid (grants not loans) and approximately 40% of students get aid.

My kid got a great education and is making a ton of money. He already owns two homes - one in Boston and one in a suburb of Boston. And he didn’t need any help from us for down payments.

In our opinion it was a great return on our investment in his education.

He was also a liberal arts major/minor (Politics and History) for those who think majors in a liberal arts subject is a waste of money.

[tinrobot]

6. $10k in student debt relief seems paltry compared to some of those numbers.

[Torchlight]

7. I did state college in the mid-eighties

in Texas. Worked framing houses in the summer which paid for tuition, books, and fees (all told, I think I was spending about $800/semester), and still left me with dollars in my pocket for gas, beer and smokes.

Granted, I maintained part-time work in the student union building, and lived w/ my parents while my friends were off getting their first apartments, but still.

I'd be really surprised if a typical wage job could support that same level today, even at a state college.

[Nevilledog]

8. Alma mater is #1 in CA