The main difference between public and private universities is that you yourself pay more with private. In public universities, the state pays for more. Both have to budget the hell out of the money they receive, wherever they get it from though. Also, yeah, with private institutions, you have a bit more say in where the money goes (you being the president), but you're still subject to the board of directors.
You get the same stuff out of either school, just depends on if you get the taxpayers to pay or your parents (though private institutions get government funding as well, just not as much). That's the only reason public schools are cheaper. They spend about the same amount of money as private schools and have just as cool stuff.
Unfortunately for me, no school in Texas had the major I wanted >.When you go out of state, you pay out-of-state tuition which can be just as much as paying for a private school (because you're only paying education taxes to your state, the other state has no obligation to give the out-of-staters a
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I thought the private universities were generally better and had more money than the public ones but maybe not. I guess I'm wrong cuz Penn is really good, and that's public.
In Denmark there is no tuition what so ever, but I know the living costs are higher than here in Houston. So I gotta figure out what is cheapest in the end, though that's probably still gonna be DK. And actually it'd surprise me if Danish universities don't have all that high tech stuff as you have here. There's all these surveys that say DK is one of the top IT countries in the world. However, we don't have anything like the Baker Institute at Rice.
But again, I don't have to worry about all this now. I have enough ahead of me in Cambodia as it is.
It's going fine here... have been in Galveston for a weekend, and then right after went to Philly for a small week. So yeah, I've had an awesome summer break so far. And I'm going home in 17 days now.
Nice that you're having fun in Turkey!... I hope it's not as hot as Houston.
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You get the same stuff out of either school, just depends on if you get the taxpayers to pay or your parents (though private institutions get government funding as well, just not as much). That's the only reason public schools are cheaper. They spend about the same amount of money as private schools and have just as cool stuff.
Unfortunately for me, no school in Texas had the major I wanted >.When you go out of state, you pay out-of-state tuition which can be just as much as paying for a private school (because you're only paying education taxes to your state, the other state has no obligation to give the out-of-staters a ( ... )
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In Denmark there is no tuition what so ever, but I know the living costs are higher than here in Houston. So I gotta figure out what is cheapest in the end, though that's probably still gonna be DK.
And actually it'd surprise me if Danish universities don't have all that high tech stuff as you have here. There's all these surveys that say DK is one of the top IT countries in the world.
However, we don't have anything like the Baker Institute at Rice.
But again, I don't have to worry about all this now. I have enough ahead of me in Cambodia as it is.
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It's going fine here... have been in Galveston for a weekend, and then right after went to Philly for a small week. So yeah, I've had an awesome summer break so far. And I'm going home in 17 days now.
Nice that you're having fun in Turkey!... I hope it's not as hot as Houston.
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