Pace University or CUNY Baruch

taxguy
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:48:33 +0000

First, you can’t go solely by acceptance rate statistics since some schools self-select top quality candidates.

Frankly, I don’t see that much of a difference between Pace and Baruch as to their name cache or academic quality or even pay levels for faculty. Frankly, I think of them both as being fairly equal in both cache and academics with only a few slight differences.

Regarding fees and tuition, the difference, however, is enormous:

Baruch is about $4,800 per year for both tuition and fees for residents

Pace is about $32,800 per year for tuition and fees. IN fact, the tuition is so high at Pace that they hide it. You actually have to search for tuition and fees to figure out what they charge.

Does Pace or almost any school other than Wharton and NYU have the cache to justify an extra $28,000 per year?!Over four years that will result in over a $100,000 difference, not to mention cost of living increases too. You can almost buy the small BMW each year for the difference or use the money to buy a house. I just don’t get why anyone would think that Pace is worth an extra $102,000++ for the four years.