Pitt overtakes Penn State as most expensive public university

Colleges & Universities Penn State
1

<p>[Pitt</a> overtakes Penn State as most expensive public university | Penn State | CentreDaily.com](<a href=“http://www.centredaily.com/2013/07/01/3672990/pitt-overtakes-penn-state-as-most.html]Pitt”>http://www.centredaily.com/2013/07/01/3672990/pitt-overtakes-penn-state-as-most.html)</p>

2

<p>Hail to Pitt! In defense of the Pennsylvania schools, they are not state schools in the traditional sense. They are state supported and receive far less state support than most states’ state schools.</p>

3

<p>16k instate sounds rather high. I have always looked at OOS which seems to be around 25k (has that gone up?).</p>

4

<p>It seems like Pitt just hates in-state students. Its OOS tuition is only 25k but in-state is 16k. What’s wrong with Pitt ? </p>

<p>Penn State’s OOS is 29k which makes sense considering its 16k in-state tuition…</p>

5

<p>Pitt is considerably smaller than Penn State. Pitt also has worked hard to diversify its student body and perhaps the OOS tuition is one way it does that.</p>

6

<p>Pennsylvania does have “real” state schools ([Welcome</a> to the PA State System of Higher Education](<a href=“http://www.passhe.edu/Pages/default.aspx]Welcome”>Home | PA State System of Higher Education)). Instate tuition at those schools is under $10K.</p>

<p>In Pitt’s defense, I believe they are typically more generous with financial aid than PSU so it could still end up costing less.</p>

7

<p>Those two schools are basically tied for in-state costs. For the 2011-12 school year that the article was based on, the difference in tuition and fees is only $148 (less than 1%) over the whole year. This is for arts-and-sciences at both schools, and it’s not accounting for room and board. It also doesn’t account for the upper-division tuition increase at Penn State, which doesn’t occur at Pitt; if accounted for, that would reverse the order.</p>

<p>Neither school “hates” in-state students. The high in-state costs occur because the state government does not subsidize the flagship system to the same extent that most other states do.</p>

<p>Sure, we have “real” state-owned schools, but they are not of the same academic quality as Pitt or Penn State, and they don’t offer all of the majors.</p>

8

<p>For the 2011-12 comparison year, Pitt’s OOS tuition-plus-fee total was $26,280, compared to $28,746 (lower division) or $30,164 (upper division) for Penn State. Those figures were for arts-and-sciences. Still less than 10% difference, and it could be that Pitt is more aggressive in recruiting OOS students.</p>

9

<p>

</p>

<p>Lets just say both love OOS students and leave it at that. They can raise their out of state tuition to 40k like UMich and heavily subsidize the in-state tuition. Then again, PSU and Pitt aren’t regarded as highly and this could lead to both colleges being 90% in-state like California and Texas schools. </p>

<p>

</p>

<p>Whattt ? I thought all schools had upper-division tuition increase.
<a href=“https://oafa.pitt.edu/costs/[/url]”>https://oafa.pitt.edu/costs/&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://tuition.psu.edu/tuitiondynamic/rates.aspx?location=up[/url]”>http://tuition.psu.edu/tuitiondynamic/rates.aspx?location=up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If you are doing Business or engineering, it looks like PSU is still cheaper.</p>