Cost of University?

Cerealkiller says on Mar 11, 2006, 05:19:

It depends on the Uni and the course.
I think Javeriana must be around 4 million pesos for most degree schemes and around 8 for medicine.
Externado is around the same.
Nacional, I dont know really but its state uni so im guessing it is very little.
Andes is 7'500.000 for all courses except medicine which costs 12 million pesos.
Those to me are the better unis in bogota, and prices are per semester.

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Gator says on Mar 11, 2006, 06:34:

Please... be a little more specific, much like asking how much is tuition in New York? In the national universities it is on a sliding scale.

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caulfield2 says on Mar 11, 2006, 07:46:

The university here in Armenia (public), is something like $250-400,000 for students who went to public high schools, and anywhere from $1,000,000-2,000,0000 for students who went to private colegios, with the Strato 6 kids paying the maximum, around 2 million.

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jessicam says on Mar 11, 2006, 09:04:

More Specifics Thanks for the great information so far. To answer Gator's request for more specifics, basically I am thinking about encouraging one of my young relatives that graduated from public high school a couple of years ago to go to University, and maybe help out with tution. But they don't have that much money and before I went down this road I wanted to know what I might be suggesting $ wise. Bogotá I mentioned specifically since it is only an hour or so bus ride from where they live. I'm not that picky on what Uni, cheap is good, but would like it decent enough that it would be equivalent enough to US that it would work to get a job here in the US after graduation, if desired.

Nacional is sounding good tution wise. Is it decent? Hard to get into?

Admission is my other concern, since the high school was a public school in a pueblo not sure how quality the education was or how hard it is to get admitted into Colombian universities? Is Nacional hard to get into?

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untreated says on Mar 11, 2006, 10:10:

Very hard to get into. The Nacional was closed by riots yesterday!

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jessicam says on Mar 11, 2006, 10:59:

Hmm What unis are easy to get into?

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Halliday says on Mar 14, 2006, 11:57:

And I thought it was cheap! Hmmm. those prices (4-7 mil)are aproaching the cost of public institutions in the united states. I thought university in Colombia was a bit cheaper.

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Gator says on Mar 14, 2006, 12:33:

In South/Central America.... Los Andes (Bogotá) ranks 25
National University of Colombia (Bogotá)ranks 28

This site ranks the top 100 Universities in South and Central America.

If your Spanish is up to it here is the site for National:

http://www.unal.edu.co/

Various campus throughout Colombia-they differ in what is offered-like National in Medellin is noted for its engineering program

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