I spent my first two years of college at a smallish, private university with about 6,000 students, and my last two years at a large public university with around 30,000 students.* Were there differences? Of course, and most of the differences were related to the size and the resources of the school, not necessarily because one was private and one was public.

I graduated from my home state’s flagship university, University of Maryland, which meant I got to attend a great school at an in-state tuition price. It was significantly less expensive than the private university I transferred from— a total benefit of having a well-funded and impressive public school in your own state. But don’t be fooled into thinking that all public universities are inexpensive. Often the cost of tuition for in-state residents is discounted through government funding, but out-of-state students could find themselves paying just as much as they would at a private college. Read the rest of this entry »

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