After 4 years of university study, international students spent more than 300,000 US dollars

After 4 years of university study, international students spent more than 300,000 US dollars The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign currently has more than 5,000 international students, among which the number of international students from China is the largest. Picture...

The University of Illinois will provide a "frozen increase" in tuition fees for in-state freshmen for four consecutive years. However, international students whose tuition is already higher than in-state students will inevitably continue to have tuition increases in the new academic year. How much does it cost to train an international student at an American university? Take the University of Chicago, which has the highest tuition fees in the United States, as an example. Although rent in the Chicago area is cheaper than in other American metropolitan areas, without any scholarship subsidies, college students studying at the University of Chicago in 2018 will spend about US$72,000 a year in tuition and miscellaneous fees. In other words, obtaining a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago requires an investment of at least US$300,000.

According to the Youtoufang website, we analyze the tuition and fees of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago in Chicago, Boston University, Northeastern University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, the University of California at Los Angeles, California Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University in San Francisco, and Columbia University and New York University in New York, plus the median rent in the vicinity.

The report shows that among the well-known universities in these five cities in 2018, the University of Chicago has the highest tuition fee of $54,656, while the lowest is $41,265 at the University of California, Los Angeles. If tuition and fees are included, Columbia University in New York, which is favored by many Chinese students, has tuition and fees of US$72,710 in 2018, ranking highest among all schools.

In terms of rent, the median rent in the San Francisco area is as high as $4,450 per month. In comparison, the median rent in the Chicago area is the cheapest, at only $1,800 per month.

Alice, a Chinese student who is studying in the engineering department of the University of Illinois at Chicago as a junior, told this newspaper that her annual tuition fee is US$31,612. She currently rents an apartment near the school with another classmate. The monthly rent is US$700. Other basic living expenses include food, mobile phone bills, and Internet fees, which are about US$400 to US$500 per month. In addition, monthly shopping and social expenses are about US$400. Over the course of a year, US$50,000 in expenses cannot be run away. She said that this is considered general consumption. Many students who attend expensive schools have to prepare at least US$80,000 to US$100,000 per year for their families to study abroad.