<p>“I was also starting to feel like we were in a very small minority that pays 100%. Have wondered if we really missed the boat, lol.”</p>
<p>See, that was exactly my point in post #63…because the fact of the matter is that you probably ARE in a small minority paying full cost at a private. CC is a not representative of the real world and my concern is always for families who run out and borrow themselves broke because they think somehow “EVERYONE” is doing it. They aren’t. ;)</p>
<p>It seems like a lot of posters here want to send their kids to undergrad colleges with the most aid and then use the money they saved to pay for graduate schools. However, the reverse situation happened for us. </p>
<p>We paid 100% for a top LAC for our daughter but she is attending a top 10 MBA program with 66% tuition scholarship. She will be responsible for all her business school expenses through loans and money saved from 4 years of employment.</p>
<p>We also paid full fare for our son at an Ivy. Debt free, he has been able to save more than $80K from 3 years of employment and thinks he can have a successful career without going back to graduate school.</p>
<p>A little under half price at H.</p>
<p>One pattern we see in some happy families is full freight expensive private undergrad schools, followed by employment at fortune 100s or big consulting firms, which then send the student back to law school, med school or ms/phd on them. They are committed to returning to the employer for at least several years but otherwise tuition and living expenses are handled. To get such a deal, the student usually has to major undergrad in something quite applied - business, applied math, engineering,etc. But not always. One friend’s S majored in history at Princeton, was recruited to wall street, then his firm paid for his Harvard mba.</p>
<p>What about graduate school at night on the company dime? There’s usually no commitment needed.</p>
<p>Yup. Sometimes companies will send them to “executive” graduate programs where they attend full time for about a week each month. There are lots of ways this can work. I think it’s a brilliant way to go, personally. Of course, you can’t count on it being available back when it’s time to make undergrad decisions.</p>
<p>I never heard of any company that would pay for MD degree. Which company that would do that?</p>
<p>The US military will pay for the MD degree. There is a catch, though.</p>
<p>Having graduate degrees (or undergraduate degrees for that matter) paid for by your place of employment is very common in large enough companies and also many hospitals. You do not have to attend a prestigious private for these perks. Just get the entry level job for your education and you can get reimbursed for tuition.</p>
<p>I also know kids who were hired before they finished college by their internship companies and paid to work and had the rest of their tuition paid for by the company. Again we are not talking top 20 schools here.</p>
<p>Yes, the University of Phoenix is one of the largest schools to grant degrees paid by employers.</p>
<p>All degrees are not the same.</p>
<p>oh, cbreeze, you are killing me. Here in Phila. if you work for Boeing you can attend grad school at Penn…there are many examples like this. Boeing hires lots of local kids from Drexel, Penn State, Widener etc.</p>
<p>H & I had school paid for by Fortune 100 companies. We were state school grads & this never held us back. Most of our friends also earned graduate degrees while working full time & having the company pay. It can get tricky, with travel commitments and such, but it’s a wonderful opportunity. Executive MBA programs are usually pretty strict about attendance, as they meet infrequently but pack a great deal into the one weekend a month/full weeks throughout the year. Even law school was paid for with no obligation to contunue at the firm. Med school would have been eligible, as well; but I am unaware of med schools programs that are offered in the evening. Usually if you were in the process of earning the degree, you would still be considered for job advancement that required the higher degree.</p>
<p>Cbreze, some of the graduate programs friends & I have attended are NYU, Rutgers, & Fordham for MBAs; Seton Hall for nurse practitioner & JD (one friend who graduated from the evining program is now a Federal Judge) & Stevens and NJIT for engineering. I won’t bore you with the many success stories as you seem to believe a degree earned in the evening isn’t valuable. Don’t tell Harvard.</p>
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<p>We are seeing this too. A close friend’s son received his engineering degree and now is working on MBA on company’s dime–they also are encouraging him towards law school (again paid for).</p>
<p>We are paying about 45% of tuition and fees at a small LAC; rest is covered by merit scholarship</p>
<p>Paying 100% of full retail price at a private U for D1 and saving for the possibility of the same outcome for D2 (Jr. in high school).</p>
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I didn’t mean that.
It really depends what you want out of the graduate degree. I’ve been attending night time extension courses for years for personal enrichment.
Don’t want to hijack this thread anymore.</p>
<p>Big Pharma will pay for med school (full time enrollment) for employees deemed “top talent.” It isn’t common but it happens. Know several recipients of this incredibly generous opportunity. Of course, if Big Pharma continues to be “Beleagured Pharma” then this might go away.</p>
<p>My employer has a tuition reimbursement program that some of my staff have taken advantage of to earn Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees while still working. However, they do frown on University of Phoenix though - not because they dismiss the value of the degree but because it is so expensive. The company would prefer you try local community colleges, Cal States, or UCs or some reasonably priced on-line courses.</p>
<p>100% at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>mammal,</p>
<p>Which big pharma pays for full time med school’? I have worked with two of the top 5. Neither pays for full time. Both pay for part-time degrees at med schools.</p>