Are college educations like electronic equipment? Can the quality of the education you get be directly correlated to the amount you paid for the education? I've been wondering about that a lot lately.
I'm paying roughly $4,000 a year for my education. When I apply for my Master's program, I will be applying to a school where I will have reciprocity and so will receive resident tuition. I will be paying about $5,000 a year. This seems to be considerably lower than many of the universities I read about other people attending.
I'm choosing to attend Utah State to complete my BA and then plan to apply to Morehead State for my MFA program. I wonder, what do you think the difference is? Why the discrepency in cost and is there really a difference in the education received? Will I learn less? I don't believe I will.
What do you think?
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I think that state universities are so much cheaper because they receive a minimum of taxpayer funding, which I also believe is good and necessary for quality societies. Private universities just rip people off. I've gone to two private universities thus far for undergrad and my MPA, and all I have to show for it is more debt. I don't think I got an exponentially better education, nor do I think it helped me get any of the jobs I got.
You are just illustrating that you are smarter than most people, who pay for designer college names instead of the actual product they receive. And it is why I hope to go for an MFA (if I got at all) at a city university. I'm through throwing away money.
My undergrad was paid for by the government and the school itself (yay scholarships!). I'm not sure which way that counts. And do I measure smarts in literature anyway? Nobody's impressed when they hear "UC Davis."
They may not be impressed when they hear "UC Davis", but I was impressed when I heard "Comparative Literature". That's one of those things that just sounds impressive, now matter how you say it.
I didn't go to college... but I am exceptionally well-read.
I know of people that went to high falutin' schools, that I wouldn't want to teach the second grade. I also know people that got their degrees from small schools, that they attended at night and on-line for years, that I think are exceptionally smart.
Designer schools are fine if you want to spend the money... but at the end of the day, a poli-sci degree is just as useless from Harvard as it is from Slippery Rock teachers college.
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