Same school, College of Engineering. I don’t remember my first year, but my last year (1996 - '97) tuition was $20,000 even. That’s pretty comparable to what Motorgirl paid (that calculator says $15,000 (1988) = $20,177 (1997), so tuition kept an even pace with inflation over that decade.
The tuition we paid then, though, is the equivalent of $28,900 now - at $45k, the real cost has skyrocketed.
Under $400/semester at CSU Sacramento in fall of 1987 for full time, in state students. Fall 2013, $1368.
For some reason, this bit of useless information has stuck with me:
1976, community college in Florida: $15/semester hour ($240 for a typical full-load semester)
1976, university in Florida: $23/hour ($368/semester).
Add books, lab fees, etc (but lab fees were perhaps $10-15 for the course).
[del]Ohio State[/del] THE Ohio State University, 1963-64:
Comprehensive Fee (residents’ tuition): $600.
Rooming house: $30/month.
Total for 3 quarters: $870 (not including books, etc.)
Today, it would add up to $20,226.
And I remember my father constantly bitching about the expense.
Another Cornell, 1991, Engineering. I was gonna say $25,000 but that must have been including expenses. Probably a bit below $20K.
I am pretty sure my first semester’s tuition, in-state, full load, was around $240…Possibly as high as $270. By the time I graduated (took me 5 years, but I was an engineering major and changed schools) it had risen to nearly $350, maybe $400. This would have been 1980-85. Metropolitan State College, University of Colorado at Denver.
And AARP sent me a membership card yesterday.
When I started at California-Berkeley in the fall of 1980, it was around $1000/year. In 1982-83, it went up to $1100; in 1983-84, it went up again - I think to $1300.
Some people believe that it was not a coincidence that California had a Democrat as Governor (who is also head of the Regents of the university) until November 1982, and a Republican after that; note that initially, the 1982-83 tuition was the same as in previous years, but there was a $100 “surcharge” added for the final third of the year, which, “coincidentally,” was after the election.
Times have changed, I started there Fall 1976 and my first semester tuition, room and 7 day board plan was $996. Tuition was $4 an hour. Other fees brought the tuition/fees to about $250. Room was about $250 and board was almost $500.
My daughter graduated last year and I was paying about $5000 a semester for her tuition and fees.
The real difference is books, most of mine(still have all from my major) were $12 to $15 and many of hers were $300 and that is for downloads, not a hard copy. What a racket that is.
tuition, room and board, $1800, about $200 more than my parents claimed on income tax for their total income. Knox College, 1959. I think it advanced to about $2500 for my Senior year, and I graduated with $4000 in student loans to pay off over the next 10 years.
Quite a bargain, really.
First year? Around $8000, all from a Pell Grant and scholarship, with about $4000 leftover.
Started LSU in '86. I recall tuition was about $700 for the fall semester. Fees added a couple hundred. Don’t recall what dorm and meal plan were.
I worked at the Engineering Library as my work study job. I think you started just late enough that I didn’t check any books out to you. 
ETA - But I might have checked some out to Ludovic !
I started at MIT in 1967. Tuition was $1900. I don’t recall what room and board was. Tuition was $2150 for my sophomore and junior years. My junior year 1969-70 was the last time MIT did not raise its tuition. Strangely, I don’t recall what it was for my senior year. I’d guess $2400. So it was about $8600 for the four years.
This past year it was $41,770 more than 20 times my tuition 45 years ago. That’s 7.1% per year. Inflation has increased the general price level by 6.78 which is 4.3% per year.
I went to Geneva, a small, private Christian college in the wilds of Western PA. Cost for my freshman year of 1987: $5,340 Tuition and Fees. Anyone attending now is paying $32,790. To top that off, my major is no longer listed.
Back in the Dark Ages, 1967, my first year tuition to a private college was $2,000. Five-hundred of it was a scholarship. I only remember that because my mother kept reminding me of how expensive my education was.
I don’t remember what I paid for my Master’s Degree, finished in 1984, but I do remember that it took me about fifteen years to pay it off. That was one happy day.
University of Kentucky, 1994-1998, about $1200/semester. It has quadrupled since then.
Medical school '98-'02 (also at UK) was about $11K. People starting this fall will pay $33K.
Same here, but I started in 1985. I would have said about $15,000. Same school is just over $40K for tuition now.
At Cal-Berkeley in the fall of 1990, my in-state tuition and fees were about $550 for the semester. But my student housing at Clark-Kerr was close to $10,000 for the year (including meals).
First quarter at University of Tennessee in 1968 was $240 and I think that included my dorm room. Books were extra. One of the most expensive cost $13.00.
MIT, 1969 - 1973, and I confirm these numbers. But you left out “Too Damn Much” (or TFM.) MIT had an annual spontaneous tuition riot when the numbers for next year were announced.
However I could have gone to Cooper Union where the tuition was zero (which just ended.)