05-07-2013, 10:31 PM
Speedy wrote:
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[quote=Speedy]
I paid $4.50/quarter credit hour. Plus fees, etc. At State U in 1968.
And take home pay was like $53 a week for a student working a summer job and earning minimum wage. It's all relative.
I worked construction during the summer and saved well over $1k which was enough to pay tuition and room and board. I don't remember my hourly wage...
It's just that pulling a figure out of the air with no context seems rather pointless. Ground beef was 39 cents a pound when I was in college, but that number by itself is kind of a so what. You need to compare cost per credit with income of the era, in which case we would see that college credit costs have skyrocketed. Otherwise we're just old fartts discussing the days of yore.