How does paying in-state tuition fees at a public university compare long-term to the total cost of attending an online institution?
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
How does paying in-state tuition fees at a public university compare long-term to the total cost of attending an online institution?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
2025-26 average in-state public four-year tuition fees College Board Trends College Pricing 2025 online bachelor's degree tuition average costGoogle ↗
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NCES average undergraduate tuition fees public four-year in-state 2023-24 online college total cost accreditation financial aidGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDShort fact
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (2)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
2025-26 average in-state public four-year tuition fees College Board Trends College Pricing 2025 online bachelor's degree tuition average cost Google ↗
NCES average undergraduate tuition fees public four-year in-state 2023-24 online college total cost accreditation financial aid Google ↗
- Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid Report: Published Tuition Prices at Public Institutions and Annual Federal Borrowing Increase by Less than 1% Beyond Inflation · newsroom.collegeboard.org
- Trends in College Pricing 2025 · research.collegeboard.org
- College Board tuition and financial aid data · research.collegeboard.org
Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
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2025-26 average in-state public four-year tuition fees College Board Trends College Pricing 2025 online bachelor's degree tuition average cost OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
NCES average undergraduate tuition fees public four-year in-state 2023-24 online college total cost accreditation financial aid OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Short fact | — | — | 1x of 1 |