>>>My 9,500 included room and board.
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>What school is that? Looking at Penn State: a 4 year degree needs a minimum of 50 credits so if you do it part time over (say) 7 years it's still $5K annually just for tuition and before allowing for the joys of annual education inflation. That's assuming you don't do a masters or law/medical degree which costs a whole heap more.

Shippensburg University. That's the price I saw today for this year. I went in 1968 when I was about 1/4 of what it is now.