DeadSupra

So I am comparing CSU Long Beach and San Diego State, and I find that LB states tuition is around 2.3k and sdsu says its 7k.

Well I check with collegeboard and it says both are around 6000. What is going on? Checked both were undergrad and it was just tuition and fees. Why is it so different?

emeraldkity4

They all have the same standard rate. Fees vary.
http://www.calstate.edu/sas/documents/2011-12COA.pdf

thumper1

When in doubt...the thing to do is use the information posted by the COLLEGE on their website.

Emerald is correct. The tuition is the same....but the fees vary.

mom2collegekids

"So I am comparing CSU Long Beach and San Diego State, and I find that LB states tuition is around 2.3k and sdsu says its 7k."


Long Beach's tuition is much higher than that. You must be looking at the semester rate...

Per semester

Tuition and Fees - 3,120 <---- that's the per semester cost per the CSULB website.

The tuition and fees per year would be twice that amount....about 6,300 per year.

DeadSupra

Yeah I caught my mistake a little early on before your post. But thanks for responding. I thought I was going crazy lol.

Problem solved

momofthreeboys

My dad used to say "get the information straight from the horse's mouth"...don't ask me where that expression came from...but get your info from the college not from a third party website.

mom2collegekids

^^^

True....but many kids get mixed-up when the school's website is stating "semester costs" or (worse!) quarter cost....and the kid thinks that is "per year".

Can you imagine a student going as far as accepting/enrolling during the May 1st deadline and declining other offers only to find out later that he was looking at "semester costs" instead of "yearly costs"????