Questions tagged [tuition]
Fees paid by students to academic institutes they attend to cover educational expenses.
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Why is college tuition high, but academic salaries low?
Where is the money going to?
How can it be that interested students pay so much, but many academic salaries are so low (excluding the obvious full professor in a field where the industry pays for ...
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What is the socio-economic argument or historical basis for university tuition fees?
One of the major differences between Europe (here I am mainly referring to Scandinavia) and Northern America, from an academic viewpoint, is the perspective towards higher education. In Scandinavia ...
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Is education in Europe really this cheap?
Is tuition in Europe really US$300 or €200 a year? That is one tenth the cost of the tuition in the developing country university where I took my bachelor's and master's.
Is it really true that some ...
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Why are tuition fees for PhD students so high in the USA, despite not taking any class?
As a PhD student in a US university, my tuition fees are ~44,000 USD per year, despite the fact that I don't take any class: only 6 classes are required during the PhD program, and I've completed them ...
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What percentage of a professor's salary is paid for by tuition?
Is it possible to determine what percentage of a tenure track/tenured professor's salary is paid for by tuition? At my UK university, our school budget includes income from student fees (we only get a ...
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What is a tuition waiver (in the US)?
A tax proposal in the US is reported to make "tuition waivers that many graduate students receive when they work as teaching assistants or researchers" taxable.
I am currently a PhD student at a US ...
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If most universities in the U.S are non-profit, why are they so expensive? [duplicate]
Tuition can easily get in the tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars for a 4-year degree. This is unarguably many times over what the university needs to cover the costs of offering their ...
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What are factors leading to rising tuition costs over time?
Is there any published work that quantifies the roles of different factors on rising tuition in the U.S. over the past half-century?
I've heard a number of explanations bandied about, such as:
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Do price and value of degrees correlate much?
Many American colleges and universities have very high tuition fees, in particular at prestigious universities. For example, Harvard University in 2014-2015 is US$43,938 for tuition and US$58,607 for ...
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How much money is spent on students' above their tuition fees in the UK?
It is well known at the university which I went to (Cambridge), that way more money is spent on each student than the home-tier tutition fee (it is partly payed for by the exorbitant cost of ...
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