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Originally Posted by muttonglutton
24k? 36k? One year of post-secondary education?
I live in Canada. Refer to Janey, where she said it is 5k for first year tuition. This is closer to the amount I will be paying next year, at the University of Waterloo. No, its not Harvard or Yale, but it's not much worse at all.
Send your kids to Canada for their education! 80% off while supplies last.
Honestly, how do the schools in the states charge that much? Five times as much per year? On top of conversion rates? I'm either very glad I'm going to school in Canada, or missing something really important. Because I can count on one hand the number of people I know whose families can spend over a hundred thousand dollars for their degree. Plus siblings and... ohmy. I've got to be missing something.
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I know that education is expensive in the US, and that international standards differ for example, I heard that it is free for University education in Germany. But then I think youneed to get accepted, and it eveuntually shakes out as a scholarship style programme.
But here in canada, it is supported by the government for domestic students. There is much said about the standard of education here versus the US, but having mixed with an international crowd while at Queen's undergrad, I can say from an undergrad perspective, the quality and opportunities are about equal when compared to, let's say Harvard or Yale.
If an international student (that is non domestic) had to pay for their tuition at Queen's it would be about 2 to 3 times more expensive than a domestic student: (from their website for 2003
http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/awards/Internat.html):
Program Tuition StudentFees Books &Equipment
Applied Science $16,320 $791 $1,600-$1,850
Arts/Science $11,650 $717 $ 735-$1,050
Commerce $16,320 $792 $1,185-$1,450
Concurrent Education/
Arts or Science $11,650 $727 $ 735-$1,050
Education $11,650 $705 $1,950-$2,020
Fine Art $11,650 $717 $2,000-$2,500
Law $16,320 $821 $1,700-$1,950
Music $11,650 $717 $2,050-$2,300
Phys Ed/Arts or Science
$11,650 $726 $1,215-$1,465
Nursing Science $11,650 $723 $2,115-$2,500
Rehabilitation Therapy:
$11,6504 $720 $2,200-$2,750