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Cost of college

Hopsin · 2013-03-09 12:39:42

This probably wont get taken serious, but ya never know. Supposing tomorrow the Irish government stopped subsidizing college fees. How much would it cost a person to attend (Im not talking about rent money/food/socialising etc just the actual college fees). Also I understand fees would vary from course to course and from…

09-03-2013 1:39pm

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Hopsin

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This probably wont get taken serious, but ya never know.

Supposing tomorrow the Irish government stopped subsidizing college fees.

How much would it cost a person to attend (Im not talking about rent money/food/socialising etc just the actual college fees).

Also I understand fees would vary from course to course and from college to college. So for the sake of argument. Lets just say we are talking about an IT course in DCU or UCD, Trinity etc..

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#2 09-03-2013 1:41pm

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College forum would be a better place to ask

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#3 09-03-2013 1:42pm

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About 3fiddy?

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#4 09-03-2013 1:45pm

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urbanledge wrote: »

About 3fiddy?

Why? This stopped being funny years ago.

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#5 09-03-2013 1:45pm

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For my course in NUIG without the government subsidy it would cost around €7500 per year. At the moment I'm paying €2750 registration fee per year. I could check the exact figures somewhere but I can't remember how.

Edit: Found the figures, the government pays €5018 and I pay €2750

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#6 09-03-2013 1:46pm

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Software engineering in Maynooth would cost ~€7400 per year
http://fees.nuim.ie/documents/UGFEES1213.pdf

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#7 09-03-2013 1:48pm

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I'm paying 5700 per year. 2250 student contribution and 3450 tuition.

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#8 09-03-2013 1:51pm

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CSSE09 wrote: »

Software engineering in Maynooth would cost ~€7400 per year
http://fees.nuim.ie/documents/UGFEES1213.pdf

Its seems a bit silly that even if you have to pay the fees yourself (which i did after changing course) that you still have to pay the contribution charge. What exactly are we contributing towards if we're paying the fees??

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#9 09-03-2013 1:52pm

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Hopsin wrote: »

This probably wont get taken serious, but ya never know.

Supposing tomorrow the Irish government stopped subsidizing college fees.

How much would it cost a person to attend (Im not talking about rent money/food/socialising etc just the actual college fees).

Also I understand fees would vary from course to course and from college to college. So for the sake of argument. Lets just say we are talking about an IT course in DCU or UCD, Trinity etc..

I would imagine about 10k for most courses in any of the major schools.

You might get away with some subsidies bringing the price to 3k

Typical government, what a good idea to get the economy going again, take away education.

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#10 09-03-2013 1:55pm

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Arts courses would be €5000.
Health Science courses would be around €10,000
Science courses in between

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#11 09-03-2013 1:56pm

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jubella wrote: »

Its seems a bit silly that even if you have to pay the fees yourself (which i did after changing course) that you still have to pay the contribution charge. What exactly are we contributing towards if we're paying the fees??

In my case the student contribution is 30% of the total cost. If you have to pay them in full that means paying your 30% + the balance of the other 70%

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#12 09-03-2013 1:59pm

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It's about 5 grand per year. But that's not including student contribution of about 2-3k. Which is far too high. It's a backdoor charge. It's the kind of fee you'd encounter during a ryanair checkout. Either incorporate it into the overall fees or scrap it.

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#13 09-03-2013 2:02pm

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Hopsin wrote: »

This probably wont get taken serious, but ya never know.

Supposing tomorrow the Irish government stopped subsidizing college fees.

How much would it cost a person to attend (Im not talking about rent money/food/socialising etc just the actual college fees).

Also I understand fees would vary from course to course and from college to college. So for the sake of argument. Lets just say we are talking about an IT course in DCU or UCD, Trinity etc..

Depends on the course. or science it could cost anywhere from 8-15 thousand per year.

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#14 09-03-2013 2:21pm

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ibarelycare wrote: »

Why? This stopped being funny years ago.

it was never funny

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#15 09-03-2013 2:27pm

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urbanledge wrote: »

it was never funny

So then stop using it. It needs to go the same way as "blast them with piss"...

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#16 09-03-2013 2:37pm

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Hopsin wrote: »

How much would it cost a person to attend (Im not talking about rent money/food/socialising etc just the actual college fees).

Nothing. If you take this advice. Sure include the rent money/food/socialising etc. This is how it's done*. Post #50
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056894049&page=4

(*This country is gone mad. I'm off to buy a Lamborghini, use it for 5 years, more to The UK and declare bankruptcy)

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#17 09-03-2013 2:41pm

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Blast them with 3 fiddys

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#18 09-03-2013 3:38pm

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Heres UCD's costs. It would be nearly €53000 to study medicine. Cheap compared to most countries but most people wouldn't bother.

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