So barely above inflation, not to mention the increased value of an engineering degree. Sounds like it’s probably overall cheaper nowadays. Go Heels.

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That’s crazy. How does anyone afford that

He said what are the outliers with a big difference between audience and tomato score. It seems like you just focused on “big blue dots” and posted a link to a list. I’d also like to know, thanks

I just checked my school in Va, top 20 engineering school, I graduated in 1993. At the time I graduated tuition was around $5k yr, now it's about $12k.

I do indeed, their called apprenticeships, but on that matter, how much do consultants make? 6 figures?

i've never heard of a recognised consulting company that will hire you out of high school, maybe you know of some?

Do you? Or do you just need to learn the ropes, start entry level and progress your way up, ending with $0 in debt

I graduated in 2019, It was just over 10k a year for me at a Texas public school. The above includes living expenses as well, which is sort of bullshit.

It included cost of living from what I can gather. Texas is pretty much in the same cost realm as Cali. Our biggest universities by size are all public and cost (about) the same.

>50% of population don’t end up using their degrees they spent 75+ grand on in 2022, now that’s a current fact that you can Google

but that would include people that say got a degree in Engineering but work in Consulting - you're still going to need a bachelors degree to work in consulting no matter what it is

Fewer students applying- not a comment on the services either just fewer students. I was reading another post the other day about how the declining number of students was impacting smaller schools the hardest/potentially forcing them to close in the near future.

Does this include the living costs or not?

I think for many universities those would be tacted on to the base fee. Meal plans have always been extra ime.

Here's the full csv from the last run if anyone's interested, the script and plot I used are also on GitHub

https://github.com/declanrjb/rotten-tomatoes/blob/main/ratings_all.csv

This fact of $1 million more in a lifetime is extremely outdated, just like the housing market and or the ‘American Dream’. It used to be so perhaps 15-20 years ago, I would absolutely Love you to go around to the current grads and generations and grab a poll from them- infact, 50% of population don’t end up using their degrees they spent 75+ grand on in 2022, now that’s a current fact that you can Google

Even if they wanted to include private schools it should be weighted by number of students attending each school in order to get an accurate average. Otherwise some small school with like 2,000 students charging like 40,000/year is absurdly pulling up the average from the larger state schools that charge way less

The data set I used in this case is not adjusted, if it were the list would be quite different (Gone with the Wind and A New Hope would still be at the top by a lot), so that would be an interesting one to run through at some point.

The two giant ones in the upper right quadrant are Avatar and Avengers: Endgame, respectively, if that's what you mean. I was trying to make it interactive at one point so you could hover over a dot for movie title, but I'm just a hobbyist and I haven't figured out how to do it yet. I'd be happy to post the full csv at some point though so people can look up individual titles.

Saw that but it’s Still not enough. Room and board is roughy similar to in state tuition at those two schools which would put the ave at ~28k.

Thousands of students commute to PSU, also, and pay zero room and board.

This is insane. I want to regionally well regarded private school for less than that and I'm 38. It was probably a mistake, but luckily worked out for me. The idea that this is now the average for my state is unthinkable. A couple decades ago we had one of the strongest state college programs in the country and now you're telling me a four year degree averages 120k? It's completely unsustainable.

I think you're just a bit thick mate. Maybe go donate some money to the heritage foundation.

It's including room and board for each state too.

Do you see all that light brown/ tan on the map? Those are Trump counties in Trump states with low violence and loose gun laws.