How much did you or are you paying for your STEM degree?

>Arizona State University lmao
>Molecular biosciences and biotechnology (actual major name)
>I got paid $8k every year to attend
>No loans, just the cost of attending a notorious party school
>My dad's employment there offset the tuition by 75%
>Get into a biotech company, suck some dicks, run some PCRs, and get them to pay for my masters, then keeping sucking dick in the local biotech industry

- Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris)
- Biology
- 5€/year
- 25€ for a masters degree so no
- Same as above
- Bioinformatics

>How much
Sticker price is 30k.
>Uni
UC Berkeley
>Major
Mechanical Engineering
>pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Paid with mostly Veteran's benefits, some student loans
>Working for the rest of my life to pay back loans
No, probably will pay them off in 5-10 years
>Parents
Nope.
>what will you do in the next 5 years
I'm currently working in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics lab at the university, I'm applying for internships at most high-profile Aero companies within California for next year. Honestly couldn't tell you where I'll be in 5 years.

I get nothing from lying. Here is my first semester receipt.

On the right down corner there is a list of what is being charged.

>Berkeley
>UC Berkeley

Top KEK come to MIT m8

It is. They pay for it in their taxes.

>MIT
Possibly for my eventual PhD. I'm planning on doing my MSc at Berkeley in the year after my BSc, and going into industry for a few years.
I'm not a huge fan of Massachusetts in general, though.

>Sticker price is 30k.
Good luck senpai. You'll need it.

WOW why is it so cheap desu?

Thanks, and I realize I'm lucky, but I'm not so sure about my future in academia.
I get good results, but I'm lazy and I hear it's extremely difficult to get a job in arithmetics if you're not one of the best.

I end up paying about 4k a year on average. I'm doing just fine.

Because
It is a public university, but public in the actual meaning of the word, where all the workers are paid for by the government and so there is no need for a high price.

I mean, I sometimes wonder why the even charge at all, when the fucking entrance process is so violent, but I suppose they got some clever finance dudes that calculate that if the students pay 3% of the university's budget then the government can handle the remaining 97% just fine, but if the government had to pay for 98% of the budget then a financial crysis would ensue, or some shit.

I hope things don't change thing and you americans should probably start to protest towards a similar system.

I mean, this is literally a third world country.

Unless he's riding through on some insane scholarship, he's paying for his school through taxes as well, and will continue to for as long as he lives in that country.

> University you're currently or did attend?
Iowa State University

>Major?
Electrical Engineering

>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Some of each. Parents helped some and I worked summers and paid as much cash as I could as I went along, had some scholarships too, but the rest was in loans.

>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
Nope, paid off all my debt off within a year of graduation.

> Did your parents help you pay for college?
Yes, although I repeatedly tried to take the loans they had in their names the stupid government-contracted loan office wouldn't allow it. I sent them a lot of money for it to help pay it down but they finished off their end with their tax return when they got it a few weeks ago.

>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
Work, which I'll also be doing for the next 40 years after that at the very least. I don't think social security will be around for me to retire on, so I'll probably just work as long as I can. Enjoying it so far.

No thanks.

I don't want to be forced to pay for 4 extra years of babysitting for every kid in the country. Being forced to finance dance majors at the barrel of a gun doesn't help the me or country at all.

Stony Brook University
Phyiscs/Math (probably gonna drop Physics)
Loans
Nah, a large chunk is covered by financial aid.
No
Grad school for Acoustics

>How much did you or are you paying for your STEM degree?
So far roughly $10000 in four years (finished B.Sc+M.Sc), but I am receiving a scholarship of $2000 per month, so I have actually gotten a lot more money from the university than I've paid

> University you're currently or did attend?
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

>Major?
Medicine (MD-PhD program)

>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Cash

>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
No, I already got more money from the university than I paid them

> Did your parents help you pay for college?
No need, I had savings from my army service.

>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
I am not even going to finish my degree in the next 5 years, it's a 9-10 year program and I'm just on my fourth year

>Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico
>Software engineering
>$0, university here is free
>Nope
>Nope, like i said, its free
>Probably work for a company

Maybe we are financing literal retards but is it really worse?

I think that your 1.4 trillion dollars in student loan debt is not sustainable at all. You clearly cannot stop people from being retarded, but you can at least build a system in which the retarded people do not fuck up your entire economy.

Also, it is not for every kid in the country. Maybe in the past when this university was open (it was the first university in the entire country it was opened like 80 years ago) but now there are plenty of for-profit universities like in the US. I know my ex-gf is getting charged 5000$ per semester.

Now that those for profit universities exist to supply education to the morons, this university can be a lot more selective. I did mention how fucking violent the admission process was and I am really glad that I will never have to go through anything similar in my life.

>>Software engineering
>>$0, university here is free
I should definitely move kek.

That debt is there, and the rise in the cost of college, is almost entirely due to the government already. By making student loans easy to get for people going for worthless majors with no hope of paying them back, the government creates the debt. By making loans so easy to get students become less cost-sensitive since they're young, stupid, and see extremely cheap money offered to them because the interest rates are kept artificially low, so way more people go to college than should be.

>Also, it is not for every kid in the country.
Try giving away "free" college in the US and saying it's not available to every special snowflake in the country, and all the illegals too. It would never happen. If it's not for literally everyone, you'd get shot down with a million bullshit discrimination lawsuits.

The reason most universities in the US have so many Chinese and other foreign students is because they couldn't get past that selection process in their own country, and US schools will take anyone who can pay, and they often pay less than students from other states in the US if it's a public school. In effect the US is subsidizing foreign education, albeit a relatively small percentage.

Fucking liar you need to pay de $0.50MXN (0,09
dlls) fee.

So you'd rather pay abusive interest rates to attend universities? I can't see much logic here.

>Try giving away "free" college in the US and saying it's not available to every special snowflake in the country, and all the illegals too. It would never happen.

You already have the SATs. Simply set a minimum SAT score and if you get that then you get partially free college.

To make it liberal-proof simply don't exclude anyone. If you are a black trans woman wolfkin and you get a high SAT score then you get your subsidized education. This wouldn't really hurt anyone.

Federal University of Itajubá

Electrical Engineering

It's "free"

No loans

No, but they did pay for everything else

Nothing, I dropped out and am pursuing an army officer career, good pay + very stable.

> University you're currently or did attend?
Rice

>Major?
BioEngineering

>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Neither, I received a full ride with an extra 2k per year for miscellaneous fees

>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
No, although I will pursue a masters in most likely biotechnology along with the multiple internships and research ventures I will be occupied with.

> Did your parents help you pay for college?
No, although they have helped pay for things like my laptop, bike, and other stuff.

>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
As said before, get my masters and head into the industry with hopes of working my way up to a leadership position of a well established company.

>abusive
Look up what an unsecured loan is.

It's not that I want to pay more for college, but we're already paying more than it looks like by giving out loans to all these idiots that go for interpretive dance or african studies and never pay back the loan.

Not everyone takes the SAT, but I get your point. I'd be ok with some (basically STEM only, but I wouldn't want a glut of those either) of those high-scoring people getting a cheap government loan, but treat it like an HSA. You get a certain amount of money but you have to spend it yourself. That's been shown to make people more cost sensitive than just having everything taken care of for them. There would also have to be reviews at the end of each semester and if you have below a certain GPA for 2 or more in a row you get your loan revoked. Repayment would have to be as close to guaranteed as possible, meaning wage garnishments when you finally get a job if you aren't paying back your loans. It's not fair to taxpayers to make everyone else foot your bill because you waited a certain amount of time only paying off the interest like you can in some countries.

People with university degrees pay more tax over their lifetime due to earning more, and actually end up more than paying the tuition back in taxes.

>eceived a full ride with an extra 2k per year for miscellaneous fees

I must be a dumb ASS than because I only received a 1500$ grant because I'm a lefty. Shit my future looks grim.

I can believe that for STEM majors, or if the stats were from decades ago when relatively few people when to college, but I'm gonna need some stats to prove that figure overall. Look at the majority of people pushing for "free" college in the US. Many have >$100k in debt and went for some stupid fluff major at a school they knew they couldn't afford. How is it fair to take my money at gunpoint to pay for that?

I just realized this is board is like College Confidential but for compulsive liars.

A state school in NY

Math

No debts

Parents paid fully; only child

Continue working on machine learning and making dank projects with my friends

/board

Oh yea forgive me. **subreddit

Germany made university free (even for non-citizens) for this exact reason. Believe me, they've run the numbers and it comes out favouring free university education (the one catch is that they have relatively high admission standards).

Nothing. Education is free in my country. Oh I can hear those burgerfat cries already.

>free

Can we trade places.

>Smart dude

>195 IQ

>Lives in NY

>African American

>Educated parents

>Lower middle class

>3.9 GPA and graduated with honors with CS bs

>Get denied by Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Cornell

What's going on?

My school didn't accept cash so I paid online with a card

My mom paid for it. Then when I graduated I just stayed home and played games because I realized I was too autistic to function in the real world. At least I have that associate's degree.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Computer engineering
Large portion covered by merit, rest in loans and parents money
Changing the world b-baka
Tbh idk, kinda want to go into charity

> University you're currently or did attend?
CSU in the valley

>Major?
MechEng

>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Loans. Currently 3500 deep, but at least I have a job now.

>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
no

> Did your parents help you pay for college?
My parents are helping me with my rent and groceries until I actually get called in for work, right now they're doing the background check and stuff

>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
work on cars I guess. I switched from Computer Engineering to Mechanical because I didn't want to be sitting in front of a screen all day as my career, at least with a MechEng degree I can have a few more options since mechanical is one of the most broad fields in engineering. Or so I hear.
My affinity for computers is showing though, I am without a doubt the best programmer in my "computer applications in mech engineering" class. I'm sure everyone can tell I'm better with computers than I am with physics and such, but oh well.

Also I'm failing a basic math course, so there's that.

Racism

Smart niggers aren't exploitable by liberals.

1500e/year

University Singidunum

Electrical engineering and computing

cash

no loans

parents help, I also contribute

will be getting my master's in 5 years hopefully or working

> University you're currently or did attend?
University of Porto
>Major?
Integrated Master's in Electrical and Computers Engineering
>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
0€ a month
>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
jesus fucking christ, no
> Did your parents help you pay for college?
they pay for food, clothes and booze, even the individual room/water/gas/electricity is free
>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
probably grab some very good management position or take another Integrated Master's in Mec.E. while working some lower job (e.g.:1k month)

>UoB
>ME
>£48000 in tuition and maintenance loans
>only till it gets written off in 30 years...
>yes, maintenance loan isn't even enough for the rent
>who knows

fucking tuition fees

>University you're currently or did attend?
University of Freiburg, Germany
>Major?
Biology, with a focus in Immunology
>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
cash, it's like 150€/semester, was a bit more where I did my bachelors though
>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
obviously not
> Did your parents help you pay for college?
yes, immensely
I worked for a few months a while ago but I couldn't have done it without taking loans if not for my parents help
>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
I'll try to get a PhD position in virology and then work in some lab, maybe go abroad if the opportunity arises

The top university in my country (Eurofag).
MD-PhD
Student loans; university education is partly tax financed here.
Lol god no.
Nope.jpg.
Get my PhD. Go do research with some god-tier university. Work in an air ambulance. Travel with my GF. Have a gud life.

>How much did you or are you paying for your STEM degree?
39€, biannually

> University you're currently or did attend?
UASUA

>Major?
EE with minor in SE

>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Come on now.

>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
In a way, yes.
Everybody is paying a part of the budget needed by our educational system via taxes.
Still beats being a slave to student dept excusively.

> Did your parents help you pay for college?
No. I'd rather work to pay my bills than getting everything spoonfed.

>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
Either working at a company specialzing in household robotics or working at a generic embedded engineering job.

>University of Auckland (New Zealand)
>Bachelor of medicine
>(lmao) student loans
>I'll be working it off for the next 5-8 years likely
>nope.jpg
>Get a high-paying, but stressful af job

> University you're currently or did attend?
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
>Major?
Mech.Engineering & Comp.Sci
>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Neither really. HEX is an interest free loan, ill owe about 50k once i'm done which isn't an issue.
>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
Lol no, what kind of shithouse country would do that?
> Did your parents help you pay for college?
No need here.
>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
Move onto a phD of biomechatronic engineering

>Major?
Nautical Science

>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Free education

>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
Nope

> Did your parents help you pay for college?
Nope

>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
Get a job

My thoughts exactly.

> University you're currently or did attend?
UNCG

>Major?
Anthropology with minor in Biology

>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Student loans mixed with Pell Grants out the butthole

>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
Keku, I'll be like 13k in debt max m9 at a super low interest rate

> Did your parents help you pay for college?
If being physically disabled which allowed the school to feel super bad for me then yes

>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
Either research work, some variant of teaching (HS or Uni), or museum-esque work. I don't plan to only have a BA because I'm not COMPLETELY retarded.

>>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?

What if you won't even find a job because it was either automated or taken by a h1-b?

> University you're currently or did attend?
Politecnico di Milano.
>Major?
Biomedical Engineering.
>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
I never asked for loans in my life up to now; if I couldn't afford going to University I would have just got a job. Most of my expenses are paid through scholarships though, so I basically consider studying as a job.
>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
I will get out of Uni without any debt.
> Did your parents help you pay for college?
They give me some money to buy food, but rent, tuition and any extras are on me.
>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
Who knows? Probably I'll take a PhD in BiomedE somewhere else, but everything can change in the meantime.

> University you're currently or did attend?
University of Waterloo
>Major?
Mechanical Engineering
>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Student loans and co-op income
>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
No, I should graduate with Did your parents help you pay for college?
Not yet, but if I need it they have $4000 set aside if I need it
>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
Get a job, hopefully in the aerospace industry

Were you in a similar thread in /g/? Thought I saw you a few days ago.

>195 IQ
>African American
The odds of that being true, are probably close to the same as each person that read this post will be alive in 2165

500€ per year, most of it is the price for a ticket

Heinrich-Heine Universität

Physics

Cash

Nope

Yep

Finish my bachelor, do a master then a phd. Then I'll see what's next

>Southern Denmark University

>Get paid around 10-15.000 $ a year

>Have to pay for books and materials though.

>lives in NY
>cares about harvard/MIT wank fest

There's your problem, go to a cheaper state, get a government job with that CS degree and do a masters at a state school. If you want to go into research later on again do state school and maybe you can get in contact with harvard/MIT for a doctoral program down the road or you can go to Europe for a doctoral program.

You have literally no excuse, yeah it's hard getting a job out there but unless you're lying or have a criminal record you could be much better.

>How much did you or are you paying for your STEM degree?

70% tax rate for the rest of my life.

>UT Austin
>Physics major/Comp Sci cert
>Nothing. Army is paying tuition and a stipend me to attend
>parents are paying for housing
>no
>might branch national gaurd to do combat engineer and try to work in research. Currently doing computational evolutionary biology. It's cool af
I live a good life

University of Kyoto
ME
Full ride
Refer to above
Parents? What are those?
Pursue a master's in germany probably.

> University you're currently or did attend?
shit state school i'd rather not say

>Major?
Bio

>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
Both

>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
depends on if I get the dual MD/PhD program or just MD. No if 1, yes if 2.

> Did your parents help you pay for college?
yeah a little.

>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years? MS + MD +/- Ph.D

>University
rather not say
>major
biochemistry
>payment?
student loans
>will i be working the rest of my life?
no, probably 4-6 years if my career goals work out the way i want them to
>parents help
yes
>what will you do with your degree
I'm starting a PhD to research the design and synthesis of catalysts used in olefin polymerization at a UC. The other research project I have the opportunity to join synthesizes conducting materials for multivalent magnesium batteries. Haven't chosen one way or the other, but I start this summer. excited.

>University you're currently or did attend?
University of Bucharest
>Major?
Physics
>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
0. From next year I will actually get paid like 40% of the minimum wage monthly. This year some dumb bitch stole my scholarship, she fucking failed intro to programming.
>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
/
> Did your parents help you pay for college?
well, they are paying for my room and food. After I get the scholarship I will be nearly independent
>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
2 more years until I finish undergrad, then I hope I can get a scholraship for master's at ETH or get accepted in a graduate program at an Ivy in the US

Take me with you

None
None
None
No
No
Nothing

Im a pipe welder and ever since getting out of highschool ive been earning about 100k/yr and thats with 3 months off a yr

Life is good

I'm 23 btw

University of Connecticut

ME

$25,000 in loans

No need to work like a slave, and my parents aren't helping. Working at the state minimum wage for 20 hours a week, or working a single internship in the year, pays off my yearly expenses. Five years after graduation I'd like to do design, or consulting work somewhere.

good on you user.

There's a huge problem with too many people going to college, not because I think people should be denied education, but because they go, study a degree they don't actually care for, then when they have a poor resume they saturate the job market for everyone else while complaining about it.

I predict once people start realizing that there are awesome trade jobs like what you have, people will seriously start weighing the costs of attending a uni to the opportunity you have. Take on $100K + debt in a shit job market? or take on $100K/year out of high school. be warned user. they may come for your job next.

I already see it coming with so many people going to "welding school" and "graduating" and applying to all these jobs. The good thing about welding is that every company tests you before giving you the job so all the unskilled hands don't even get a job after "graduating".

That's a real issue especially in America. As a white American male I noticed how they would choose me to lead in my uni and workplace over a minority whose actually smarter and more intelligent than I am. When I would tell my professors or boss that I know that a minority is a better candidate for the job, they would always tell me something along this line: "We are here to carry the morals and traditions of this country in the righteous path and no other races can do that."

I've lost hope in my country right after I graduated high school and was introduced to the real world.

Nope

Does Forensic Science count as a STEM degree?

Hahaha. Finnfag here. I didn't pay a goddamn dime, but I was given a hefty sum in the form of student support, apartment support and welfare, as we all are.

I did take a small loan (a few thousand bucks) on top of it so I could live a comfortable life, after rent and food. The parties don't pay themselves after all. Paid that back quickly enough.

I am guessing you are under 20.

k

>University of Toronto
>Tripled in Math/Phys/Chem
>Parents paid, about 60k CAD over 5 years
>Getting M. Sc. in Phys Chem, considering Ph. D. or moving into Business

>> University you're currently or did attend?
Its in my country’s capital
>>Major?
"Informatics engineer" (software eng + lower level stuff)
>>Did you pay with CASH or STUDENT LOANS?
lol, it's all free
>>Will you be working for the rest of your life to pay back your student loans like a slave?
lol, it's all free
>> Did your parents help you pay for college?
lol, it's all free
>>What will you do with your degree in the next 5 years?
get a job

Auburn

Biology (Pre-Med)

Full scholarship

Maybe

They provided for my food and housing

Get MS and go to Med school.

>Americans in this thread

Fuck my student loans have my anus destroyed. What will I do, I am eating shit of the toilet because I have nothing else for nourishment. Everything is shit!

>Non-americans in this thread

Everything is free, therefore I am free to worry only about what matters, doing internships, figuring out my future, getting good grades. Everything is good!

And yet americans can't figure out exactly what is wrong here.

You're definitely trolling, as someone with those stats would be in if they didn't get shit on by the GRE, which would mean they weren't actually that intelligent.

Ok, I laughed.

Why did you laugh?

The maymays were dank.

how does one become a welder? Do you a training program at a CC or something?

Nette tripletten.

Meinungsfrage: Ist ein Doktorstudium es überhaupt Wert heutzutage?
Würde in Richtung Mikroelektronik/VLSI gehen.

mfg. totaler Schwachmat

GI Bill, so I paid "nothing" in a monetary sense.

Shitty midwest state school

Will graduate with less than 10k in student loans. Not terrible..