Doing some basic math on tuition in Ontario for this week's course on the history of the university.
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@brian_gettler That domestic tuition of $5,801 for 2022 doesn't seem right. I've only been looking for the 2026 year, so I guess prices have increased over the past 4 years, but $5,801 looks closer to the cost of 1 term instead of full year. Assuming it's not one of the deregulated programs -- which itself is a major change versus decades ago.
I just went to check U of T costs (which, admittedly is probably not representative of the average). I'm a little shocked to see they charge both a program fee plus a fee per course. That really adds up.
@brian_gettler I suspect the really informative angle is to supplement this with showing provincial university funding per student. Based on what I've read, it's plummeted over the decades. And it's a nice simple metric that should be easy to compare.
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A full summer job would cover tuition — but not living expenses. Of course, those were lower then, too.
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I can confirm my tuition for 1969-1973 at Laurentian University was $500 (aprox) a year. HBA in Political Science.
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A full summer job would cover tuition — but not living expenses. Of course, those were lower then, too.
@hamishb @chris @brian_gettler
Yes — I went to UofT during the 80s, and my minimum wage summer job would just barely cover full tuition plus textbooks.I’ve found people my age who complain that kids today should just ‘do what we did’ are completely resistant to basic math when I’ve tried to explain that it’s literally impossible.
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@hamishb @chris @brian_gettler
Yes — I went to UofT during the 80s, and my minimum wage summer job would just barely cover full tuition plus textbooks.I’ve found people my age who complain that kids today should just ‘do what we did’ are completely resistant to basic math when I’ve tried to explain that it’s literally impossible.
@jvschrag @hamishb @chris @brian_gettler UofT '90s, here. Got a full-time *union* job one summer which paid for the following year. Any other year, impossible, even then. Ridiculously worse now.
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