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There's no doubt about it: college costs have risen dramatically over the past five years, and students are shouldering the burden.
According tothe College Board, the average annual in-state tuition at a public university for the 2007-08 school year was $6,185, a 4.2 percent increase from the 2006-07 school year. And the average annual tuition at a private university for the 2007-08 school year was $23,712, up 6.6 percent from the previous school year. And that's just tuition. Those figures don't take into account the myriad other costs associated with attending college, whether a student lives on-campus or off-campus. If you're a commuter student who drives his or her own car to school and has to pay for his or her own gas, you're familiar with just one added expense.Liz Bohinc, a rising junior at NYU whoappears in this new report about college costs, says she even knows students who've had to drop out of her school or take a semester or a year off to work because NYU was just too expensive.
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