but your comments on tuition are even more absurd: "On an average the tuition costs per month is well over $ 2,000.00 plus for the cheapest public university." That is $18,000 per year for tuition over the normal 9 month school year.
Here's just one example: "-- The California State University (CSU) system includes 23 campuses across the state. These multipurpose institutions serve more than 400,000 students annually and offer both undergraduate and graduate instruction for a variety of professional and occupational goals as well as broad liberal education -- Statewide, CSU students who are California residents, pay fees of $1,188 annually for part-time (up to six units) and $2,046 for full-time enrollment."
California State Universities are NOT the cheapest public universities by any means, and they are 88.6% lower than what you say.
Could you explain this discrepancy?
I pulled myself through six years of University education in Germany in the seventies with a small child on my own finances. I handled that "without a car".
I put myself through a graduate program in the US with elementary school child in a private University and went through the calculations as an almost retiree-aged person to go back to school at a public university in the US.
No way, that I could have survived this without a car. I think you have in your mind the eighteen-year old out of highschool American kid, who gets his grants, in-state tuition, a bit from mommy and daddy and lives on campus. This situation is common for US students for the first two years of their college education. Usually as soon as students have to live off-campus they need a car too, in the US.
Funny, this thread is drifting off a bit from what should be discussed here. :-)
P.S. I gave some explanations now up-thread to the other numbers.
