Location: Iowa City, Iowa Enrollment: 32,011 In-state-tuition and fees 2017-2018: $8,575 Out-of-state-tuition and fees 2017-2018: $28,813 Description: “With the lowest tuition and fees in the Big Ten, this leading public university is a bargain for athletes, artists and academic stars alike.”

'Students and families are telling colleges all across the United States - and they're telling us - that encountering a high published price is a real barrier to a high-quality education.' 'The marketplace spoke, and we listened,' BSC President Linda Flaherty-Goldsmith tells AL.com. What we’ve done is looked for great schools that for one way or another have tried systematically to keep their costs down.”įor instance, Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) announced in 2017 that the school would be reducing tuition and fees by more than 50 percent starting in the fall of 2018.

“But that said,” continues Fiske, “there are reasons that some colleges tend to be better buys than others. Students should work with schools directly in order to asses how much a given school will cost them and can ask for the ' discount rate' in order to determine how much the average student actually pays to attend. For instance, a private college with an expensive sticker price is not always more expensive than a local public program.

“It depends on who you are.”įactors such as financial need, financial aid, merit scholarships and ability to graduate on time can dramatically impact how much attending a school will cost a given student. “What college costs for one person is going to be different for another person,” Fiske tells CNBC Make It.

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