美国最“物美价廉”的大学 高金华 编译 最近二十多年里，美国大学特别是名牌私立大学的学费扶摇直上。例如，宾西法尼亚大学1976年的学费是3790美元，1997年的学费已经高达 21130美元。但是，学费与教学质量并非是正比关系。最新编辑的《为你介绍最好的大学》、《时代周刊》和《普林斯顿观察》等书刊向人们介绍了一些学费低、质量高的学校。这些学校的学费只相当于那些常春藤名牌大学的三分之一，但却提供了高质量的教育。筛选学校的质量标准是学生和教师的才能以及超过平均数的毕业率，《时代周刊》为便于人们进行价格比较，按每年学费多少排列出美国10所最“物美价廉”的大学： 格罗夫城市学院（宾西法尼亚州） ￥6,917 ── Grove City College （Pennsylvnia） 南佛罗里达大学新学院 ￥8,461 ── New college of the University of South Florida 位于宾厄姆顿市的纽约州立大学 ￥8,865 ── State University of New York at Binghamton 纽约州立大学杰纳塞欧分院 ￥8,909 ── State University of New York College at Geneseo 马里兰州圣玛丽学院 ￥9,555 ── St. Mary's College of Maryland 位于查珀尔希尔的北卡罗来纳大学 ￥10,700 ── University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校 ￥12,350 ── University of California, Berkeley 加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校 ￥12,401 ── University of California, Los Angeles 赖斯大学（得克萨斯州） ￥12,600 ── Rice University （Texas） 弗吉尼亚大学 ￥14,434 ── University of Virginia 以上列出的数字是各校向州外学生收取的学费和其他费用的总额。除格罗夫城市学院和赖斯大学外，其他学校对州内学生收费要更少一些。 译自：美国《时代周刊》1997年３月17日版第48、60页。 原载：《美国大观》1997年第８期第44页。（本期执行编辑：罗伟清）
我97年上大学刚赶上并轨，学费是2800元，当时家里觉得是天文数字，因为我爸妈月工资才300~400元，2000年扩招后，学费一下子涨到5600元。但是15年了，各种费用都涨了，唯独大学学费原封不动，而且贷款的比率和奖学金份额、力度都在加大。虽然我们老是批评我们的高等教育，但是工业界对招到的人才还是基本满意的。 再看看下文美国的大学学费，公立学校每年2万美元左右，私校更是4万左右，家长和学生苦不堪言。如果中国一个大学生一年需要缴10~20万来上学，学生自然会认真学，老师自然不敢糊弄，我想我们办学质量会有质的飞跃吧！：-） 就是我们这样毫无创新、填鸭式的高等教育，也同样培养出了任正非、饶毅、施一公、马云、潘石屹、马化腾这样毫不亚于比尔盖茨和乔布斯这样的创新人才。所以目前看，我们大学的性价比应该是全球最高滴，相信自己！！！ The Life And Death Of The Summer Job http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/09/425363309/the-life-and-death-of-the-summer-job AUGUST 09, 2015 8:33 AM ET ANYA KAMENETZ Facebook Twitter LA Johnson/NPR Summertime means summer jobs for many college students. But a summer job just doesn't have the purchasing power it used to, especially when you compare it with the cost of college. Let's take the example of a working-class student at a four-year public university who's getting no help from Mom and Dad. In 1981-82, the average full cost to attendwas $ 2,870. That's for tuition, fees and room and board. The maximum Pell Grant award back then for free tuition help from the government was $ 1,800. That leaves our hypothetical student on the hook for just about $ 1,000. Add in a little pocket money, too — say $ 35 a week. That makes an extra $ 1,820 for the year on top of the $ 1,000 tuition shortfall. Now, $ 3.35 an hour was the minimum wage back then. So, to make $ 2,820 meant working 842 hours. That's 16 hours a week year-round — a decent part-time job. It's also about nine hours a day for three straight months — a full-time, seven-day-a-week summer job. Or, more likely, a combination of both. In short: not impossible. Far from it. For today's public university student, the numbers have all changed in the wrong direction. Here's what we calculated based on last year's numbers. The minimum wage has also gone up more slowly than the cost of college. It's $ 7.25 an hour. At that rate, a student would have to work 1,771 hours to get by. That's 34 hours a week, every week of the year. To cover today's costs with just a summer job, a student would have to lose a little sleep, working almost 20 hours a day for three straight months. And that would still leave no money for books, travel home, pizza or a trip to the movies. This year, based on the new full cost of attendance, things are even worse. In 2014-2015, the school year just ended, the total of tuition, fees and room and board for in-state students at four-year public universities was $ 18,943. The maximum Pell Grant didn't keep pace with that: It was $ 5,730. That left our hypothetical student on the hook for $ 13,313. A student would now have to work 35 hours a week, every week of the year, to get by. To cover today's costs with a low-skilled, minimum wage summer job? Over 90 days, a student would need to work 20.24 hours a day. Plus side: if you're working that much, you don't need to pay rent because you're hardly sleeping. There's also this: Research shows that when college students work more than 20 hours a week their studies suffer. If they're working full time, many will take longer to finish ... and end up paying even more. No wonder students are borrowing so much these days. A version of this story was published on NPR Ed in June 2014.
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