Transferring from Minearverse where I mis posted: HOLY SHIT: McGill's MBA program went from under $2000 a year to $29,000 as a tuition jump within one year!
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Mar 22, 2011 6:35:10 pm PDT #29698 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kat - Mar 22, 2011 6:36:07 pm PDT #29699 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm not sure how the MBA program managed to stay so cheap--I imagined it had crept up in the 20 years since I was there.
ita, there is definitely THIS aspect. But the jump in one year seems so scarily outrageous.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:39:09 pm PDT #29700 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My copied response from Minearverse:
McGill was seriously one of the best bargains in quality education out there. It was $600/semester when I started and $1200/semester when I left¹. I'm not sure how the MBA program managed to stay so cheap--I imagined it had crept up in the 20 years since I was there.
I mean, it was one of the top 15 universities in the world at the time, and we had a shitload of American students there because it was cheaper for them to be international students there than go to their own state schools back home.
¹:Oh, the ruckus at the raise! One of my best friends chained herself to the outside of the Registrar's Office in protest. Given that I'd lent her a semester's tuition just beforehand and she was also shamelessly abusing bursaries...I mean, she just showed up at this McGill office and they gave her money...I had medium to little sympathy for her.
But the jump in one year seems so scarily outrageous.
That could totally bust your ability to finish the degree (or did they say something about grandfathering?). Still, tons of people who would have thought they were going to go, suddenly really couldn't.
le nubian - Mar 22, 2011 6:43:13 pm PDT #29701 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, there are a lot of colleges who are needing to make that tuition jump. A bunch of European universities are going that route and since there are some governors who are fuckwads, there will be a lot of state universities going that route too.
Penn State just had half its state appropriations cut.
Kat - Mar 22, 2011 6:45:09 pm PDT #29702 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I am curious if the students who are enrolled in a program and attending suddenly have to 15 times as much too. I'd assume yes, but if I made a decision to go to school based on $1700 and then suddenly had to pay $29,000 the next year, I might not be able to do it.
Trudy Booth - Mar 22, 2011 6:45:09 pm PDT #29703 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
NYU once raised tuition between semesters.
That one was pretty ugly.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:46:31 pm PDT #29704 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There was a similar but more desperate ruckus when the University of the West Indies started charging, period. Those quantum leaps are no shit.
Atropa - Mar 22, 2011 6:47:00 pm PDT #29705 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Someone grab Cass before she goes to Mozambique.
She can't, she has plans for the next two weekends in a row.
I ate half an avocado sprinkled with salt with a spoon
I just had dinner, and that sounds FANTASTIC.
sarameg - Mar 22, 2011 6:50:41 pm PDT #29706 of 30001
I seriously have dreamt of those avocados. So goddamn good.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:53:21 pm PDT #29707 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You just say that because you've never had the buttery goodness of a fresh-from-the-tree Jamaican pear.