I'm tempted to subtitle this "And you thought undergrad was expensive!"
Our plan has always been that we'd put DS though undergrad and grad school is up to him. That is basically still the plan (he graduated undergrad last year) but out of curiosity I looked up some MBA programs near where he lives now and holy cow! My BIL attended a top MBA program and I knew that was out-of-this-world expensive but I had no idea that even "middle of the road" programs could come in near 100K!
DH and I paid for grad school on our own (combination of paying ourselves, military paying with resulting obligation for service, GI Bill and scholarships) but I wonder how others did it? Did your company pay for any of it? If so, did you have an obligation to that company afterwards? Are you planning on/are you helping your children pay for grad school?
Also, how do/did you decide that grad school was worth the investment? DH had to get a masters to get to the level of promotion he desired in the military and I switched careers making a new degree basically mandatory but how do you know if you need a, for example, MBA?
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