If you don't mind me asking how much is tuition?

Congrats!

According to US News & World Report:

Penn State Tuition:
$9,822 in state
$19,734 out of state

Pitt Tuition:
$11,436 in state
$20,784 out of state

Both of which, compared to private schools, really aren't all that bad. Pitt gives out a ton of scholarship money, I don't know about Penn State.

I think Penn State gives out a lot of scholarship money but since there's so many more students, there are a lot of students that don't get any scholarship money. When I was a high school senior applying to schools, Pitt offered me a full tuition scholarship because I had a pretty good high school transcript (good GPA, good SAT scores, in the top 5% of my graduating class). However, all of that wasn't good enough to get a scholarship from Penn State.

kind of a sidenote: I believe Penn State gives full scholarships to all of its athletes. I was wondering if anyone knows if Pitt does this too?

on another sidenote: I believe Pitt gives more to the children of its faculty/staff. My freshmen year, I went to Pitt and one of my friends was roommates with the daughter of an assistant football coach. If I remember correctly, she had a full scholarship (tuition, room/board). However, at Penn State, I believe children of faculty/staff still have to pay 10% of normal tuition and room/board.

Actually compared to other states' public universities, those two are a great price!

I never I thought I'd see the day when kddani used my favorite source for quick college stats!:)

That's the best deal on an education I've seen in years.

$11,436 in state?!?!?! :eek: I'm showing my age here, but I broke out my bill from first semester of my freshman year and tuition was $908.00 and room and board for a double in Holland Hall was $960.00.

Pennsylvania public schools seem to be pretty pricey, IMO. The University of Virginia is less than 8K in state, the University of Maryland is around $7,300 and the University of Delaware is around $6,600. I just picked these three schools to compare since they're near me.

My apologies to Exlurker for taking your thread so far offtopic!

Price is price. It's not some arbitrary ranking based on some random formula by US News. They really can't fudge on it.

Actually, I just did a search on psu.edu and tuition's actually higher than what was quoted.

freshman and sophomore PA residents:
$11,024

junior and senior PA residents (admitted prior to summer 2003):
$11,534 (business, science, IST, and engineering majors)
$13,134 (nursing majors)
$10,826 (all other programs)

junior and senior PA residents (admitted summer 2003 or after):
$12,626 (business, science, IST, and engineering majors)
$14,230 (nursing majors)
$11,920 (all other programs)

freshman and sophomore out-of-state:
$21,260

junior and senior out-of-state (admitted prior to summer 2003):
$21,864 (business, science, IST, and engineering majors)
$23,616 (nursing majors)
$21,086 (all other programs)

junior and senior out-of-state (admitted summer 2003 or after):
$23,002 (business, science, IST, and engineering majors)
$24,760 (nursing majors)
$22,228 (all other programs)

Da You moroons, try Ks, Mo, Ok, Neb and Iowa!

So stay there in Bum F Penn and pay more!;)