I can't imagine graduating college owing $900 a month

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35. Wow, that sucks.

My university offers a lot of online courses and another university offers total online degrees (and it has a campus also) between the 2 I can get my accounting degree completely online (Although I chose to take most of my courses on campus). Both universities are highly regarded where I am. And then I can go on to get my accounting designation online too. I can see how it's more difficult with other degrees - when I took one year of bachelor of science, there was SO much lab time. It's not like you can dissect things or count fruit flies at home, LOL.

30,000/yr is totally ridiculous. I thought that was only the private schools, I didn't realize the public universities were the same. Sheeeit. There's another bubble/collapse waiting to happen. I wrote in another thread how I just got finished watching 'The Flaw' - a documentary about the housing bubble/stock market crash and this whole overpriced college education reminds me of what they said - the whole supply/demand theory is blown out of the water when a 'good' becomes an 'investment' and you can finance the purchase of such. When prices go up, demand actually goes up until the market can no longer sustain the prices and instead of balancing out, it crashes outright - almost like a company that is over-leveraged. A degree is often seen as an investment, and funded with debt, so I can see how a crash could be right around the corner.