I am finishing my application for my second on-line SLP program. It asks for 3 strengths, 3 weaknesses, and what I am doing about the latter. I studied like crazy, but still missed things that the professor only said once, weren't in the textbook, but were on the test. I tried retaking on-line classes through Eastern New Mexico University, but apparently there are downsides to choosing the cheapest school in the U.S. I started writing that if I am not accepted this year I will start retaking classes elsewhere, and then wondered what the second-cheapest school was, so I asked ChatGPT, and it responded with programs ranging from $20,000 annually at Columbia College in South Carolina to $32,000 at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
I asked "How does this compare with ENMU?" and it responded that MUMU costs $17,000 per year.
I asked "Are there any other colleges offering on-line speech pathology classes for less than $20,000 annually?"
West Georgia, Arkansas at Little Rock, and South Dakota are around $10,000 yearly.
So, why the heck did it waste my time with schools that cost a couple times as much?!
I am pretty sure that someone said a school in Utah was second-cheapest, but I have not been able to find that, and I have not been impressed by the tuitions I see on-line.
I asked ChatGPT and it just told me which schools have undergraduate speech programs, but said it couldn't find any information on their tuition, so I started looking, and excuse my language, but Rocky Mountain University sucks.
I keep searching for speech therapy and it keeps trying to make me read about their Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree/Family Nurse Practitioner program.
It only took 5 minutes to find out that
UOnline undergraduate tuition for 2022-2023 is $260 per credit hour for both Utah residents and non-residents., but it still seems like it should have been easier to find. I found it right away for ASU,
$561–$661 per credit hour.
Excitingly, I asked "According to
https://online.utah.edu/tuition-fees/index.php, how much is undergraduate tuition per year?" and it responded with contradictory information from 5 different sources than the one I gave it.
"Yes, but according to the link I gave you, `UOnline undergraduate tuition for 2022-2023 is $260 per credit hour for both Utah residents and non-residents.'"
"I apologize for the confusion. You are correct."
Curiously, Western Undergraduate Exchange does not simply list their tuition and fees, they have a simple table showing on-line tuition for residents and non-residents taking 6 or 12 credits for undergraduate or graduate, but it says to download a
PDF for the actual table, page 5.
Page 5 says:
Quote:
Students who live out-of-state
Online courses will be charged special tuition only rates as follows:
Undergraduate: $382 per credit
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However, further down it says:
Quote:
WESTERN UNDERGRADUATE EXCHANGE (WUE)
Non-resident students who qualify for this program pay 150% of resident tuition rates
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It looks like in-state tuition is $729.20 + $285.27 per credit, but of course they don't come out and say so.
West Georgia charges $60 + $182.13 per credit.
Apparently, Little Rock charges over $10,000 more for out-of-state students.
South Dakota says they charge
$354.75 per credit, no fees, but they charge $314.40 for residents, and $103.50 for Communication Disorder students.
Just not on-line or did they neglect to mention that?
I verified that MUMU charges $275 per credit.| West Georgia | $606.39 |
| MUMU | $825 |
| South Dakota | $1,064.25 |
| ASU | $1,683 |
| Utah State | $2,377.52 |
West Georgia is cheaper than MUMU?!
