From the Houston Chronicle.
- Southern Methodist University (Dallas) Tuition and fees: $43,800
- Rice University (Houston) Tuition and fees: $38,941
- Texas Christian University (Fort Worth) Tuition and fees: $36,590
- Baylor University (Waco) Tuition and fees: $35,972
- Trinity University (San Antonio) Tuition and fees: $35,262
- Southwestern University (Georgetown) Tuition and fees: $35,240
- Austin College (Sherman) Tuition and fees: $33,830
- University of Dallas (Irving) Tuition and fees: $33,010
- Abilene Christian University Tuition and fees: $28,350
- University of St. Thomas (Houston) Tuition and fees: $28,240
- Houston Baptist University Tuition and fees: $27,930
- Texas Lutheran University (Seguin) Tuition and fees: $25,890
- LeTourneau University (Longview) Tuition and fees: $25,740
- St. Mary’s University (San Antonio) Tuition and fees: $25,126
- University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio) Tuition and fees: $24,790
- Howard Payne University (Brownwood) Tuition and fees: $23,200
- Dallas Baptist University Tuition and fees: $22,350
Don’t ask me why they left out Wayland, Lubbock Christian, McMurry, Hardin-Simmons and so many others.
One this is certain: “Overpriced” applies across the board with the exception of possibly Rice and a couple of highly ranked schools within a few of the others.
Overpriced? Compared to what? Without discount rate you have an irrelevant number. Often the flagship schools (UT, A&M and Tech) will cost a student more than one of these privates. That certainly changes when you are talking about the lesser schools in each of those systems.
Overpriced? My contention, and that of many now looking into the matter, is that most all of so-called higher education is overpriced relative to the direct economic benefit derived by those who go into deep debt to obtain degrees.
Those are different things: the sticker price of a product has very little to do with whether or not a consumer borrows money to buy the product.
Again, the realized costs (after discounts) to attend UT in Austin can easily match the realized cost to attend a private.
Its a poor consumer who doesn’t understand the discount as an element of the true price.