Tuition

It is amazing how much the cost of education has become lately. Over the past few years the tuition for schools have been doing nothing but increasing. Why have they been increasing, does it means they have more to offer the students? That would be a big NO. Schools now only take money but do not give the same extent of education that the students pay for. Sometimes an individual wonders if I am paying so much why shouldn’t I go to a private school, where the money really is equal to the value of education and attention the school staff will give me.
In majority of public state schools you have your normal school tuition, then you have your room and board fees and then on top of that you will have your books and technology fees. For example ate IUPUI, you get the basic undergraduate fee, which goes straight towards the school. On top of the tuition fee you have your separate school fee, such as Kelley school of business and etc each have a separate fee. Then you have your per credit hour fee you have to pay and lastly you will have your “general fee” as they call it. One wants to truly sit down and investigate on all these charges that these schools give to us. If you ask a financial staff member they will tell you its for your class, but ok what if the teacher never uses what the fee covers? It would be a total rip off. “Average tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose 6.6 percent this year, again outstripping increases in financial aid and pushing students into more borrowing.” (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21420361/ns/business-personal_finance/) the above picture represents all the heavy loans and debt that schooling is doing to the students of the new world. In high school we thought our books were heavy, but now university has put more weight on our backs than those books ever did. The solution was to go to two-year colleges, but even they have raised their prices as well, “ Prices at two-year colleges, which educate about half of American college students, rose 4.2 percent to $2,361.” (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21420361/ns/business-personal_finance/). School needs to be a privilege and not a burden for someone, with the increasing prices of schools; you do not see an increase of aid for the students at all. So, next don’t wonder why so many Americans choose not to go to college after high school.