{"id":18612,"date":"2019-07-19T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18612"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:41:08","slug":"tuition-free-college-cost-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/tuition-free-college-cost-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"How much does tuition-free college cost in the USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent weeks, several colleges and universities in the United States announced that they are going to offer tuition-free courses.<\/strong> One <\/span>example<\/span><\/a> is the University of Texas, where students from families with yearly earnings of less than sixty-five thousand USD will be able to enroll in undergraduate courses for free.\u00a0<\/span>
\nHowever, to provide this free education, the University of Texas has to get funding from another investor.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe Department of Education is often researching the cost of education around the United States, and according to their most recent <\/span>report<\/span><\/a>, a free public college education will cost about eighty billion dollars per (USD79bn) year.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What does tuition-free mean?<\/span><\/h3>\n

While the term tuition-free almost makes it seem like there will be no costs involved in a four-year higher education course, this is not the case.<\/span>
\nWhat the University of Texas does is it removes all fees regarding the course itself. However, students will still have to pay for travel, accommodation, and living costs.<\/strong> This means that education will just cost less, and will not, in fact, be absolutely free.<\/span>
\nAccording to statistics, the cost of living for students in Boston can reach three thousand dollars (USD3000) per month. The cost of living for the whole duration of a four-year degree will thus turn out to be around a hundred and twenty thousand dollars (USD 120,000).<\/strong><\/span>
\nConsidering that these averages may not always include the money spent on travel and accommodation, a four-year college degree remains a pretty significant investment. Thus tuition-free does not mean free; it just means cheaper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent weeks, several colleges and universities in the United States announced that they are going to offer tuition-free courses. One example is the University of Texas, where students from families with yearly earnings of less than sixty-five thousand USD will be able to enroll in undergraduate courses for free.\u00a0 However, to provide this free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[1438,1508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}