Oh shit Tyrael, were you at Bond too? My fees are now 83,000 for the full course compared to 15,000 at a public uni (QUT)
Uni fees are thoroughly out of control these days and I think it's only going to get worse.
Nursing and education degrees are always cheaper because they're a government priority.
I'm going overseas on student exchange
Good luck! Personally I reckon the Government should pay for/subsidise overseas exchanges for all Uni students! As cliche and it sounds you'll be surprised how much you'll learn, even about ya self! Especially if you're not originally for a capital city/big city and end up going to one. (fuck I sound old lol). Good times, good memories! I studied at a Japanese Uni for half a year (was doing my Adv. Dip in Lang. at the time along side my Bachelors) and absolutely loved it!
Agreed. One thing I did noticed though, and I guess this is (probably) Uni/degree dependant, that amount of people who graduated in my year and either "just" scraped passed or I'm amazed at all how they did! Granted I was never a HD student, but I comfortably kept my C average and got offered Honors. Still, I look at some and just think fuck! lol. My point being, a Bachlors Degree is no longer some "ultra high, unattainable piece of paper, only for the nerds or academics". Too much "profession saturation", maybe for all?/most?/just some? professions, definitely IT.
.... and it shits me right up the wall....
....Of course it's a double edged sword, if uni's keep putting all these useless bastards out in the workforce their reputation will soon go to shit and enrolments will drop. It really annoys me because there are sooooo many utterly incompetent people already in the workforce with the same qualification I have, they're certainly not doing me any favours....
....I've always thought uni was far too easy....
Yeah science degrees are definitely not cheap, for the reasons nickyj mentioned. Also the contact hours per week are high so that increases the cost as well. Plus the fucking text books. I had one that was something like $180 this year.