Chapter 188

These days, college tuition was neither exceptionally expensive nor particularly cheap. Take Jing University as an example. In a city where the average annual income was around three hundred and fifty yuan, a college student's annual tuition was four thousand yuan. Meanwhile, the government's financial subsidy for that year amounted to three thousand four hundred yuan per student per year. Some lower-tier universities only required students to pay an extra hundred yuan or so in tuition, whereas Jing University required an extra six hundred yuan. Overall, however, college students still came out ahead. The cafeteria provided a monthly food subsidy of twenty-one yuan, and Jing University even issued additional meat and cooking oil ration coupons.