Sorry, but I’ve been old enough to belong here for 2 years already. Graduated high school in 1983 then 4 straight years through for my bachelors. Kids can’t afford that now, tuition is so outrageous. My senior year at MSU, everyone was furious because over the summer the Board of Trustees had approved a $5 per credit hour tuition increase on upper class division tuition to pay for construction of the Breslin Center - so it jumped from $27 to $32 per credit hour. So tuition was somewhere around $600 for a full class load of 16-17 credits when the various fees were added.

I just looked it up for the heck of it. Now $543 per credit hour, but that actually is the equivalent of $362 per 1986-1987 academic year credit hour, because MSU had 3 ten week terms in the academic year then, but now has 2 fifteen week semesters. Just crazy, no wonder kids take 5 or 6 years to earn a degree now.