Since it’s not explicit I don’t think it’s fair to show it that way.

And even then, that’s still way more than what I payed going to a state school. So again, I just don’t know where they got this data.

People who don't go to college have to pay for food, transportation, and housing too. They have nothing to do with your education expenses.

If you pay $10-20k~ for food, car, apartment as a non-college student, and you become a college student... you didn't suddenly add another $10-20k in yearly educational expenses for those living expenses.

It's not an educational expense.

Yes, I understand that and my costs were still nowhere near these numbers

You would have to pay those expenses whether you were in school or not. They are living expenses, not education expenses.

So this wouldn’t just be cost of attendance. It’s also room and meal plan per year.

They added all your living expenses too. It's absurd.

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These aren't tuition costs, they are the cost of everything you need while going to school including your car, housing, etc. It's a ridiculous graph to try and inflate the numbers.

Amd please suggest to me how i would attend a college without those expenses if i didnt live next to that university? It's a necessary expense and therefore rightly included.

The is the cost of everything; housing, food, transportation, etc. Not just tuition.

I graduated in 2019 in the US and it cost about 12k per year. No idea how they came up with these numbers.

$10k~ WVU/yr
$8.5k~ Marshall/yr
$8k~ WVSU/yr
$5k~ Community College/yr

OP's chart claims $200k~ for a 4-year degree. It's nowhere close to the actual costs associated with education, it's inflated by including normal living expenses and claiming those as education costs.

Food, travel costs (car), housing, etc. aren't educational expenses; they're living expenses that adults have to do regardless of being in school or not. Attributing them to education is absurd.

People with just a bachelors degree make, on average, $1 million more in lifetime earnings than those without.

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I went to college in Canada for about 8-9k per year (home province). USA is wild man. It was almost possible to pay for school while working over the summer.

Getting an education is like healthcare.. Both will fuck you up.

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I think the private colleges are skewing the data for these states. I graduated from Iowa State in 2020 and my costs were nowhere near what is shown on this map.

Including room & board + ground transportation into education costs is so irrational. Those aren't educational expenses; they're living expenses.

$26k~ per semester for tuition in WV as an example is absurd to begin with, when Tuition is ~$8-10k per year there at a university and even less for community college. You can get an entire 4-yr college education for less than the price listed on this for one semester.

The cost of education isn't even 20%~ of the costs being claimed here in the most expensive public university case, let alone the cheaper ones.

OR, IA and VT is surprising. Other dark blue states have Ivy Leagues, non-Ivy high-ranked private schools (e.g. Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, MIT etc.) and elite liberal art schools.

Yeah OR being so much more then WA for instance seems weird. Are there just a couple schools jacking up the average?

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I wanna know what those outlier big blue dots are. Big differences between Audience score and Tomato score.

This is weird that it combines public and private schools but then breaks it down by in state and out of state. Seems pointless.

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