story
By comparison you could go off campus and rent an entire 1bd for like $750/mo. A similar living situation off campus with 3 roommates would set you back $300-400/mo and $550 if you really wanted the nice place.
The thing that always bugged me about dorms is they aren't treated as regular residences. School having a week long break? You have to be out of your dorm during the break with no where to go but back to your parents. Also that 30k for a year only covers two semesters, about 6-7 months of actual housing, which works out to $2.5k/mo for board if we take half of that 30k you mentioned.
I don't know where this college is but I'm going to bet that you can get a seriously nice place, probably a small house for that amount.
/sarcasm (in case it wasn't obvious).
$1250 a month housing
$1250 a month on education and staff
The numbers aren't crazy with the housing prices we're experiencing right now.
You will not be paying 30K a year for OSU e-campus. More like 10-15K a year or so.
Yeah, last time I looked it is the same tuition as if you were using the in-person facilities. I think that's too much for an online program. I paid less than $10K for my master's degree at Georgia Tech. That works out to about a third of what OSU is charging for the online undergrad CS degree, if my math is right. For online videos recorded once and watched many times, I think it should not cost anywhere close to what sitting in a room with a professor does.
