<p>The state people support to pay for state colleges from their taxes! Why do they still ask for $6,000 for the state residents! </p>
<p>What state is this? Did you look at the amount your state provides to the colleges? I doubt that your state is providing 100% of the cost to the colleges/universities for resident tuition.</p>
<p>Is this $6,000 exclusive of room and board?</p>
<p>Are you asking why there is tuition at all for state residents? Because schools aren’t fully funded by the state. Why is there a charge to use a public rec center, for some public concerts or for an ambulance to transport you to a hospital? Why are there fees to park in public parking structures or for a permit to have a parade or a million other things?</p>
<p>Our public school system (K-12) spends an average of ~$18,000 per kid per year, mostly from local property taxes. I don’t imagine that it costs much less at a public university per student, considering the facilities which must be maintained are much more elaborate. And I know our state taxes are not covering more than half of the costs. So $6,000/year tuition seems like a huge bargain to me.</p>
<p>OP is not a U.S. citizen but has a green card. College may cost much more than $6,000.</p>
<p>Here even at the measly about 8k the student is subsidized by about another 50% from the state, according to some sound byte I heard, is your issue that your state doesn’t allow GC holders to be instate for tuition purposes? I don’t think that is all the states’ position, have your parents paid significant amounts of taxes in to your state’s coffers? I know this is the fact for lots of GC families, often these families are highly paid and highly taxed. But thems the breaks, you could get FAFSA, right? I think that is very generous. And it cracks me up that non resident citizens get fafsa too, even in tax agreement countries. Try that on for size in the UK. </p>
<p>At many state schools now, state funding is enough to cover only a small proportion of the school’s operating budget. Don’t be surprised when PSU, UMich, UVa, and CU behave almost like privates since the percentage of their budget that is funded by their state these days is in the single digits.</p>
<p>Because the schools cannot afford to give everyone a free education, room and board. The money that they receive from tax revenue doesn’t come close to actual expenses of salaries, support services, property maintenance, utilities, etc.</p>
<p>That’s a bargain. Our state schools in NH are more than double that or in state tuition. </p>
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My family’s budget is enough to afford for me to go to private school however if things in Russia will worsen due to sunctions it will decrease rapidly. So in state school such as Baruch is really good just in case. Thanks for replying! It was really helpful!</p>
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<p>What does this mean? Do your parents live in the US? Will they pay for a private univ here?</p>
<p>$6000?
Is that all?
Ask your state residents to get their legislature to put more money towards education.
It undoubtably is already the biggest ticket item, so you will also get to beg them to raise taxes.</p>
<p>Ok thanks guys! I am from Russia so I got used to government paying fully for our education from our taxes. I guess it’s a different situation here. All of your answers were really helpful! </p>
<p>Well, maybe because taxes in Russia are high enough to cover all college expenses.</p>