Are these community college prices normal?
Hi everyone, I’m hoping to get a sanity check on tuition costs.
I used to live in Texas but moved to Kentucky for work after finishing my vocational school. I’m now a traveling electrical technician considering an engineering degree.
Since I travel for work, evening classes aren’t an option, and I couldn’t find a Kentucky school offering online courses (please let me know if I missed one). So I enrolled at Austin Community College, which has online classes and engineering transfer partnerships with UT Austin, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech which I guess is a bonus because I do want to move to back to Texas eventually.
I signed up for two summer classes to test the waters. Algebra for Precalculus (I haven’t done serious math since 2021, so I’m taking it rather than testing out) and English Comp 1 (I may try to CLEP this one later).
The cost for these two online classes? $3,000. Instate tuition would’ve been about $1,500 for both.
I have roughly 10–12 classes total that I must take with the college. six math, three physics, two English, and intro to engineering. At two classes per semester, I’m looking at $30–36k out of state. That feels wildly high to me, but I have nothing to compare it to.
Is this actually normal for community college? If so, I may need to rethink everything, would love to hear what others have or are paying for online/out of state tuition