Worksheet for Evaluating College Research

March 2015
Your Plans: When we did our initial survey, your plans after high school were:
Go to a college in Michigan in the Health Science Pathway.

Larger University:
What You Thought
$8,000-10,000

What You Learned

Hints
Should
be
between
$270-$400
Tuition per
$320
Credit Hour
Should be between $4000-$5000
Tuition per
$8,000-10,000
$4,800
Semester
Should be in the $4,000 range
Housing
Less than $1,000
$4,246
(Room and
Board)
Reflection: I was off by the thousands when it came to the cost of Tuition. When younger you
always hear talk of college and how expensive it is. Doing this research has made me
realize that the cost is not as much as I thought but still expensive. For the room
and board although I did guess around the proper amount knowing how much it costs
to eat and rent some place.

Community College:

Tuition per
Credit Hour
Tuition per
Semester
Housing (JC)
Reflection:

Actual College Researched (if different):

What You
What You Learned
Hints
Thought
Should be between $145-$190
$3,000-5,000
$120
$3,000-5,000

$2,100

Should be between $2175 and

$2850

Less than $1,000

$3,500

Should be between $2500-$3500

depending on meal plan.

In community colleges prices are much cheaper, and as I learned that its not
because the education is less than that of other colleges but because the
campus/classroom size is smaller. The prices I guessed although are a lot more than
the actual price which is a good thing! But like all of the other guesses for prices on
the Housing I guessed to low.

Other College/University: Oakland University

What You
Thought
$3,000-5,000

What You Learned

Hints

Tuition per
$353
Credit Hour
Tuition per
$3,000-5,000
$5,306
Semester
Housing
Less than $1,000
$3,500
(Room and
Board)
Reflection: Ive always heard commercials on the radio or on T.V. about Oakland

X
X

University and

how much they want you to go there. This is the reason I chose this particular
college. I estimated around $3,000-5,000 but the true cost was in the hundreds
range which was way under my estimation because I thought that everything about
college was expensive but as it turns out it wasnt that expensive. For the tuition per
semester turned out to be about $300 more than my estimated guess. Lastly, for the
room and board I estimated less than $1,000 because I didnt think that the room
and board would be that much but it turns out that it is about $3,500.

Smaller College (Siena/Adrian):

What You
Thought
$3,000-5,000

What You Learned

Hints

Should be between $145-$190

Tuition per
$150
Credit Hour
Should be between $2175 and
Tuition per
$3,000-5,000
$2,850
$2850
Semester
Should be between $2500-$3500
Housing
Less than $1,000
$3,500
depending on meal plan.
(Room and
Board)
Reflection: Again, I was way off by the thousands because I was lead to believe collage is more
costly than it actually is. The only one than I thought was less expensive was the

Room & Board, because I thought smaller college, smaller rooms etc.

Tuition per Credit Hour

Tuition per Semester
Tuition per Year
Housing per semester
Housing per year
Total per year (housing

Jackson
College
$120
$2,100
$3,500
$1,100
$3,500
$7,000

MSU,
UofM,
$320
$3,500
$4,800
$1,415
$4,246
$9,046

Other
College
$353
$1,700
$5,306
$1,100
$3,500
$8, 806

Siena/Adr
ian
$150
$950
$2,850
$1,100
$3,500
$6,350

Other
(out of
state)
Universit
y of
Oxford
$977
$2,400
$4,880
$3,500
$7,000
$11,880

+ tuition)
Which college did you think was most expensive (from survey results)?
Michigan
Which college was actually the most expensive?
Oxford

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