If I go to my community college and then transfer to a local university after 2 years?

Classes at a University always cost more.

Because tuition is more expensive.

Taking all the classes necessary to get your AA or AS at a Community College and then transferring to a University is the cheapest way to go.

Unless, you have a Scholarship that helps pay.

If you have to pay for all of your education, it will be cheaper to take courses at the community college and then transfer. Especially if you have good high school gpa and sat/act, you should still apply to a university or two. You might find that with a generous scholarship, grant, and work study package the actual cost for you to attend would be essentially the same at the community college and at the university. If that's the case, it certainly would be nice to spend all 4/5 years at the same school.

It'll be less expense to go to a community college and then transferring to a four-year college than to go through all four years of a 4-year college. Read your community college's catalogs and select only university transferable courses, however. Not all community college courses are accepted for transfer.

Technically, however, the cheapest way to go through college is with scholarships. Someone I know went through all four years of Georgetown University - a very expensive private college - on scholarships and without paying a dime.

Why not talk with a four-year college's financial counselor and do some web searching for scholarship information. You might be surprised at what's out there.

Get the Associates Degree first then transfer. The University is definately more expensive and remember, loans are not coming easy these days.

It's a good way to do it, but be sure to get the associates and work with a counselor to determine that the courses will in fact transfer over. You will also have to work harder and get good grades to be able to transfer. But definitely do the associates, and make sure all the classes/credits will transfer BEFORE taking the class.

depends on what you want to do...I know Registered Nurses who went to community college and are getting paid loads of money!! I regret going to a University first, I should have went to community college first then transfered my credits.

depends on how expensive the schools are, but usually its cheaper to do two years at community college and then the last two at a university.

Yeah take all the courses you can at community college, it will save you a lot of money.