University of Michigan versus Case Western Reserve PreMed

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@Eeyore123

30 years ago the OOS tuition was about 3x instate at UW. Looking at history except for a brief period around 2010 it has always maintained that relationship. 30 years ago, OOS students paid 105% of the cost of their tuition. I don’t know what that percentage is today.

Colleges are one of the few areas that practice price discrimination. I see no reason why the University shouldn’t use its name to subsidize the lower income population of their state. Thinking back, all of people that I knew from OOS were either upper-middle or upper class. Not sure if much has changed.

True, and that is the case with a lot of schools. Between 3-4X for OOS vs in state.

It appears I’m hypercritical of Michigan, but if you see my comments on other threads, I’m suggesting to kids to avoid debt in general. It’s so poisonous to their futures, and the mania that the media feeds with US News rankings, etc only contributes to it.

I’m a big fan of Frank Bruni’s book, “Where you go is not who you will be: An antidote to the college admissions mania.” There are a lot of good schools out there, so going into major debt for undergraduate especially should be avoided.

I agree on price discrimination. But universities are doing a horrible job at containing costs, even in the face of state budget cutbacks. Michigan’s OOS tuition has grown at the annual rate of 6.7%. Not even housing in very expensive places like California has grown that quickly. And it is killing the middle and upper middle classes more than anyone else.