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| - It's really hard to write a review for a school because there are so many departments and each one is different. I mainly wanted to write this review for one reason, to talk about the tuition.
A number of other reviewers have complained about the tuition costs, but they are just plain wrong. Maybe it's just a natural thing for students to complain about tuition, but if people would do some research they would find out that UNLV has some of the cheapest tuition in the country.
If you want, you can use Google and search for UNLV and terms like "low tuition" or "lowest tuition" and confirm this. They have been ranked in the bottom 10 tuition rates, and I think I even found an article once that said that one year UNLV had the 2nd lowest tuition in the country -- the lowest was UNR (Reno). Of course, community colleges will be cheaper than UNLV, so I think that when people say UNLV's tuition is high their only point of comparison is CSN. Yes, CSN is cheaper, but CSN is also just a 2-year community college and not a 4-year university.
UNLV's tuition rates (at the time of this writing) are about $200 per undergrad credit hour and $250 per graduate credit hour. So, you can basically take a full load of courses for under $3000 per semester.
I attended the University of Louisville (another state school, in Kentucky) before UNLV and their rates now are around $500 per undergrad credit hour and $700 per graduate credit hour. Almost any private school would be even more expensive.
For comparison, here's the price of taking 30 undergrad credit hours in one year (two semesters) at a few schools:
UNLV: $5900
Arizona: $9100
Louisville: $9500
Kansas: $9700
Texas: $9800
Washington: $10300
UCLA: $12700
Long story short, UNLV's tuition is dirt cheap and even if it was 150% of what it is, it wouldn't be high compared to other schools.
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