“It cost me a total of $2400 in tuition money to get from Freshman to MSChE. in the early sixties.
Of course, for $2400 you could also buy a brand new Ford Mustang in those days.”
I saw on a thread here a couple of days ago that the average student debt was $28,000, which, coincidently, is about as much as a new Mustang costs.
I should also tell you that the $2400 bought me the cheapest type — 6-cyl, 4-speed, NO air-cond. A V-8 was too rich for my blood.
My down payment was a whopping $200. Man, I was going hungry for a while just to tool around in a Mustang in it’s first production year. It vied with the Plymouth Barracuda fastback.
This model was known as the “Secretary’s delight”.