OK. I was looking at Penn State overall where room and board is at least $4K per semester. At Shippensburg it says $11,160 annually for room and board plus about $3K expenses. Cost of attendance is $9700 annually but that's full time: if you take twice as long to get the degree, I expect you could halve that. IOW maybe $18K per year part time if you include room and board? Taking Dorris's calculation: not affordable even if you work "part time" 40 hours per week to yield $12,064.
In fairness, that's before you apply for assistance or take out a loan. 98% of Shippensburg attendees now receive financial aid, and 81% take out loans that average $29,437.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
