{"id":30972,"date":"2011-10-31T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/transport-costs-more-than-tuition-for-many-at-uasd\/"},"modified":"2011-10-31T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:43:56","slug":"transport-costs-more-than-tuition-for-many-at-uasd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/10\/31\/transport-costs-more-than-tuition-for-many-at-uasd\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport costs more than tuition for many at UASD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A report in today&#8217;s Listin Diario points out that public school graduates pay only RD$6 per credit at the state university, so a semester consisting of six subjects costs RD$1,626 for the entire medical degree, if all subjects are passed. The degree consists of 271 credits. To study communications, which consists of 197 credits, the cost would be RD$1,182. A student from a private high school will pay RD$2,955 for the same degree. On average students at the UASD pay about RD$200 per month, less than their transport costs. <\/p>\n<p> The tariff at the UASD is RD$6 per credit if they are from a public school, RD$15 if they are from a private school with a rate up to RD$50 and RD$25 per credit if paying more than RD$501 a month. The scale increases until a maximum of RD$100 for students paying more than RD$2,001 a month from a private school. The entire medical degree would cost RD$27,100, plus about RD$1,000 in other charges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report in today&#8217;s Listin Diario points out that public school graduates pay only RD$6 per credit at the state university, so a semester consisting of six subjects costs RD$1,626 for the entire medical degree, if all subjects are passed. The degree consists of 271 credits. To study communications, which consists of 197 credits, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/10\/31\/transport-costs-more-than-tuition-for-many-at-uasd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[230,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}