As our economic condition worsen and the recession does not seem to be going away anytime soon, public colleges have seen an influx of students. Everyone’s is scrutinizing their budget to see where they can save money. Because of that, most parents are becoming very fond of colleges with a lower sticker prices. They are encouraging their child to stay in their own states.
With unemployment hitting 10%, and the enormous expense of private colleges and universities, students and parents are looking for cost of private colleges. . With in state tuition being as low as they are, they are far more affordable than private colleges. Even when an out of state student compare the cost of private colleges and public colleges that are not in their state, they have found public colleges has a low cost and their fee does not approach the cost of private colleges.
To give you an example, the University of Florida, my home state were I reside, cost under $12,000 a year for in state tuition. When compare to private colleges, their cost can range from $33,000 a year to $50,000 a year. According to Forbes top 100 public colleges, three Florida Colleges and universities made the list. At the number two spot New College of Florida. New college of Florida was also named the second “best college buy” in the country among all public and private colleges. The University of Florida was ranked No. 21 and Florida State University came in at number 33.
A good college is one that strives to meet student needs. A good college or university is one that has a great education for our children but also be gentle on my wallet. With this recession, public colleges and universities are becoming the choice for a young men and woman that wanted to attend college. http;//www.studentloansinfo.org
According to Forbes, this is how some “other schools generally considered to be America's best still rank high--Amherst (No. 8), Yale (No. 9), Stanford (No. 10) and MIT (No. 11). But our approach to evaluating performance also yields some hidden jewels. Among liberal arts colleges, Centre (No. 14) and Union (No. 26) rank in the top 30 of all institutions. Boston College (No. 16) far outperforms Dartmouth (No. 98), Duke (No. 104) and Cornell College (No. 105). And among flagship state universities, Illinois (No. 132”
“Twenty-three schools place in the top 100 of both the best colleges and best buys lists, including, for example, relatively unknown Wabash (No. 32), Centre (No. 14) and Salem (No. 67) colleges, as well as the better-known College of William and Mary (No. 48) and the California Institute of Technology (No. 3). Whereas the top schools on the best college list are concentrated in the East, the best value schools are disproportionately located in the South.) outranks Big Ten Conference rival (No. 200) Michigan.”
