By: plonkee
Speaking as a Brit, I can tell you that we don’t really have many scholarships, grants or work-study programs. And all courses at all Universities pretty much cost the same (max allowed by government)...
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I went to a state school instead of MIT and so instead of spending upwards of 40k a year I had a full ride (tuition, books, room, and board) with a national merit finalists’ award. I bought a trailer...
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I went to the local state school, lived with my parents for the entire 4 and a 1/2 years and worked (interned) close to full-time to pay for my school expenses. It was a lot to juggle and sometimes I’d...
View ArticleBy: PaulD
I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. My daughter is looking at engineering programs at various colleges. The University of Cincinnati has a co-op program where students work for private employers in their...
View ArticleBy: awcool
I graduated from the University of Waterloo debt-free because I enrolled in their co-op program. In my opinion, this is the only way to get a post-secondary education, because the vast majority of...
View ArticleBy: MossySF
I spend 3 years in community college and then 3 years in the local 2nd tier public college. (In California, there’s the UC system and the CSU system.) By taking 6 years to do my degree, I was able to...
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I also chose the state school route. I’m lucky enough to have grown up in a state (washington) with an outstanding public university (it wasn’t really luck, it was a conscious decision on my parents’...
View ArticleBy: Patrick
I was fortunate that my parents paid my tuition, room, and board for me for my first year of school at a state college. After that, I was restless with school so I joined the USAF. I got an Associates...
View ArticleBy: SimplyForties
My son is currently going to college on a combination of all of the above, except corporate sponsorship (actually, since I’m self-employed, I guess my “corporation” is sponsoring him!).
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