{"id":3687,"date":"2019-09-13T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:06:02","slug":"college-used-to-cost-how-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/09\/13\/college-used-to-cost-how-much\/","title":{"rendered":"College Used to Cost How Much?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3688\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/college1960s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3688\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/college1960s-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/college1960s-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/college1960s-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/college1960s.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What does it take to fund a college education?<\/p>\n<p>Unless you work in the admission field \u2014 or have a college student in your household \u2014 it&#8217;s easy to lose track.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation also complicates matters, making it difficult to see how the cost of tuition, fees, room, and board have changed over time.<\/p>\n<p>To make comparisons easier, The College Board crunched the numbers using 2018 dollars. A new list published by CNBC uses that data to chart college costs for each academic year between 1971-72 and 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/09\/04\/heres-how-much-college-cost-the-year-you-were-born.html\">Take a look!<\/a> Figures for both public and private colleges are included.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at <a href=\"mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take to fund a college education? Unless you work in the admission field \u2014 or have a college student in your household \u2014 it&#8217;s easy to lose track. Inflation also complicates matters, making it difficult to see how the cost of tuition, fees, room, and board have changed over time. To make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/09\/13\/college-used-to-cost-how-much\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">College Used to Cost How Much?!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-college"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Xt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}