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Friday, September 22, 2006
The best affordable colleges
(Ohio’s affordable Miami University)
Years ago, when I attended the University of Dayton, it was named a “best bargain” school by different magazines nearly every year. I think tuition back in the late 1980s was around $6,000 a year.
But with a year at UD now in the $20,000 range, I’ll probably never be able to afford to send my kids to school there. They certainly don’t make those bargain lists anymore.
And apparenlty, a new ranking shows, almost no other Ohio schools do either.
Kiplinger is out with it’s latest list of the 50 most affordable colleges in the U.S. and Ohio doesn’t fare well.
Miami University is the only Ohio school to make the list, ranked 22nd most affordable for in-state tution and 33rd for out-of-state.
Virginia comes off looking great (I first spotted the ranking through the Roanoke Times’ Campus Watch blog) with excellent schools like the University of Virginia and William and Mary near the top of the list plus three other schools in the rankings.
California has six schools on the list, including world-renowned Berkeley and UCLA. North Carolina have five schools on the list and Florida had four.
On the other hand, Ohio’s neighbors were similarly unrepresented — Michigan had one school on the list, Pennsylvania had two and Kentucky had one, while Indiana and West Virginia had none. Other big Midwestern states like Wisconsin (2), Illinois (1) and Iowa (0) didn’t fare much better.
The cost of tuition in Ohio has been going up. Has it gone too far? Or can midwestern states like us simply not afford to offer low tuition as they did in the past?
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The education debate: What they actually said
(Ken Blackwell and Ted Strickland)
I just learned that WMUB public radio in Oxford has a podcast available for the education debate this week between Ohio’s candidates for governor — Democrat Ted Strickland and Republican Ken Blackwell.
Want to hear what the candidates said for yourself? Click thru and check it out. Then stop back here and let me know:
—Who do you think won?
—What impressed you most from either candidate?
—What disappointed you most from either candidate?
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