Is Vanderbilt worth $100,000 per year?

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2 ай бұрын

Is Vanderbilt University (or any American university) worth $100,000 per year for an undergraduate degree ($400,000 total)?
Referenced Article in Inside Higher Ed: www.insidehighered.com/news/b...
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@sandiep7717 2 ай бұрын

My son applied to Vanderbilt last year. He did not get in. Honestly i am glad. The cost is ridiculous! He applied to others universities and he hot accepted to most of them. At the end , he decided to go to UT Austin and we are in state so cost is not bad

@francestan70 2 ай бұрын

Best decision! UT is an excellent school he is so lucky.

@fcsolis 2 ай бұрын

Yes, the other day in the news they were reporting that Williams College, Yale University, and Tufts University crossed the $90,000 per year threshold. I'll prolly devote a lot of my retirement money to paying for my child's college education, being the good daddy that I am. Thank you.

@donaldbucher472 2 ай бұрын

My daughter got into Williams a few weeks ago. They made it possible for her to attend without breaking into pretax retirement accounts. Wesleyan did as well. A bunch of other comparable schools, including an ivy, did not perceive our need the way we do.

@TheLauren1113 2 ай бұрын

Agree 100%. Here on the coasts plenty of professionals make around $350k and don’t qualify for need based aid but don’t have enough money given the cost of living, the need to save for retirement and also having multiple kids to pay anywhere close to that amount. I have friends who can pay those amounts out of pocket but as a comfortable professional, it isn’t realistic. This is why we have to stop acting like the Ivy League is better. It’s not realistic for many people - even if their kids can get in. I say this as the alum of an Ivy equivalent. It’s not worth huge debt.

@francestan70 2 ай бұрын

That is $556 per day during semester for four years. Just go to your state colleges, most state colleges has huge resources and networking, save your money for your first house.

@giarc0 2 ай бұрын

And go to Community College the first two years.

@masatanida9119 2 ай бұрын

100%. As a senior eng working living and working in Silicon Valley I've been involved in a lot of tech hiring. And I can concur that and an engineering degree from Vanderbilt will not give a candidate any advantage over a candidate with a degree from any number of state schools with strong STEM reputations. Schools like UCs, Purdue, UW, UT, UIUC, and... YES - University of Colorado Boulder!

@KarthikSundharesan 2 ай бұрын

Do you think you can add UF to your list?

@masatanida9119 2 ай бұрын

@@KarthikSundharesan To be clear, we don't literally maintain a list of schools. We just have a general idea of schools that offer strong STEM programs. As far as UF goes, for whatever reason, I don't come across many alums from Florida schools here in the west coast. In fact, I can think of at least 3 Vanderbilt alums I've worked with in my career, but cannot recall a single colleague who went to UF. Perhaps their alums tend to stay in-state and don't come out to the west coast? That said, it's a big state school with a good reputation so I would assume they have decent engineering/CS programs.

@reguccello 2 ай бұрын

But it’s one of the institutions which meets full demonstrated need with no loans. So if a top student is lower income, they essentially get a full ride. Colleges like this are for the very rich, and working class, if they have the grades and scores.

@orkins2025 2 ай бұрын

On the flip side, what would be your opinon on paying for something like Mines or RHIT for engineering if Alabama is offering automatic $28k per year off for OOS and Honors College? Can you do a video on that proposition?

@matrixhousewife4779 2 ай бұрын

Ok yes we agree. But most of the better private Universities cost ~60 to 64 K tuition + another 20+ K for roomandboard My son got into Rochester University, NYU, Northeastern, and they did not give him any money. We do not qualify for financial aid but we are not millionaires. So what do I do? Do I send him to SUNY Binghamton that also accepted him?

@TheLauren1113 2 ай бұрын

Yes. You send him to Binghamton. If you cannot afford $85K this year (and rising tuition in costs each year)without putting yourself in financial peril, then choose the option you can afford. Binghamton is a great school.

@giarc0 2 ай бұрын

Yes

@richardbowen3257 2 ай бұрын

Looking at the ivy League colleges it looks like only 50 or 60% get aid. Does that mean half the students are paying the full price. Are they all wrong?

@harrychu650 2 ай бұрын

It only makes sense if you are affluent enough whereby you don't even need a job after college. For everyone else, it is a pretty obvious mistake.

@TheLauren1113 2 ай бұрын

Some people can afford that because they are very wealthy. I know people who have no trouble dropping $100K a year + on college - even for multiple people. But many high earners live on the coast and are professionals. So they are well off but not well off enough to be able to pay that amount without financing a significant portion. If you’re going to finance a huge amount for education it’s not worth the money. I told my kids - I’m not willing to sacrifice my financial security for college. They can get an excellent education either from a buyer private school that gives merit or from a state school.