>>>>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.
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>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.

I went to Northwestern and it cost $4600 a year just for tuition. That was outrageously expensive back then. I worked board service at the fraternity where I lived, washing dishes. (And before you diss fraternities, those guys are among my best friends to this day). My father and I split the cost. He came from nothing and was a self made man. I was the first person in the family to go to college. He said make this count. Yeah, I washed dishes and have done even worse jobs.