It’s the truth. Even W admitted “the truth has a liberal bias”.

What’s a rack?

Each year

Sorry to see so many turds in here dumping on you. Good work! But a lot of the critical questions are valid. Namely private vs public and do you average by number of students at each school? Also, these numbers look like yearly numbers to me, not per semester.

Lucky you!

There are fees to cover administrative costs, gyms, student activities, campus medical service, busses, things like that.

It is surprising. The proper response is not to call it crap, but to do your own research and present better data if you find it.

No! You could stay at home. No rent and the food is only a marginal difference. Costs are costs!

No. It’s not. As a parent or student you care about all costs the same. The dollars you pay to the school for tuition and fees are the same as the dollars you pay for the dorm, apartment, grocery store, restaurant and everything else.

Because they are better schools and states. There really is a correlation between intelligence and progressiveness.

Not always. Some now charge more for engineering and computer science because the demand is so great.

Generally universities charge a flat tuition fee for a full load, anything over 12 semester hours (typically each LAS class meets 3 hours a week for 3 sem hours, 4 or 5 for engineering in my experience). But some, like my alma mater the University of Illinois, now charge a surcharge for popular or expensive majors like engineering.

Junior/community colleges generally charge a rate per semester hour.

The whole class of 25 to 1000 students for a given class and multiple sections can’t use one or two library books! Most college engineering textbooks in the 1980s were $50 to $100 apiece. Probably a lot more today in this year’s dollars, but thankfully many of the texts are online now.

Read! The notes off the Southeastern coast state the costs that are included.