How did Obama pay for his education?

Answer 1

Barack Obama paid for college with student loans, scholarships, grants, student jobs and the help of his grandparents. Both he and wife Michelle finished paying off their loans as recent as last year.

Answer 2

He won a scholarship to Occidental College, which he attended for two years. See Dreams from My Father, Obama's autobiography. Then he finished his undergraduate degree at Columbia University, which has a partnership arrangement with Occidental, today, and I imagine did then. I am sure Occidental College, 1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles CA www.oxy.edu would be delighted to provide the precise details to you, to the extent the info is not privileged. see http://www.oxy.edu/x7025.xml, Occidental, Obama, and the Road to Public Service July 3, 2008

Contact: Jim Tranquada, (323) 259-2990 This Oxy contact could probably verify the scholarship.

= = sincerely, aaangle777

Answer 3

Again, here is what research has to say about it: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp The answers are fairly straightforward. This email combines a good deal of supposition and some elaborate conspiracy theory to question where he got his "money". Both he and his wife talk freely of their scholarships and student loans they received for their good grades. Here is a comparison of McCain and Obama's education: http://www.obama-mccain.info/compare-obama-mccain-education.php While in high school in Hawaii, he went to a private, expensive, college prep school from 5th grade through 12th while being raised by his maternal grandparents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punahou_School My guess is they either got him a scholarship or provided for his education with their own earnings. Other graduates from that time period include Steve Case, founder of AOL, and Pierre Omidyar, founder of E-Bay. Obviously, good grades and that kind of education on your record helps you obtain needed scholarships and student loans. Oh, and being a "minority" doesn't hurt either.

Answer 4

Just some info on how Obahma paid for his education

The question makes me furious because it has a racial undertone. It infers that since Obahma is black he had his education handed to him for free. Why is it that when I do a Google search on "How did McCain pay for his education?" - I find no hits. I do find a lot of links indicating that McCain's views on education and this important one showing how they are trying to distort Obahma's position on sex education to make him appear extreme.

Per Obahma's book Audacity of Hope, p194 "Where Americans do need help, immediately, is in managing the rising cost of college-- something with which Michelle and I are all too familiar (for the first ten years of our marriage, our combined monthly payments on our undergraduate and law school debt exceeded our mortgage by a healthy margin)."

Link --which explains why McCain add portraying Obahma's position on sex education is extreme.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/us/politics/11checkpoint.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Link on education policies-- I haven't read, but it looks good.

http://gabemakes5.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/obama-vs-mccain-on-education/

Thanks,

Arun

Arun where does it mention race in the question. That's the problem with people. It's not in the question it's the people who always want it to be about race and that my friend is you. Rethink how you think and that will bring people together.

Correction: I think you at best just 'feel'; it's the common denominator of most on the left when short of fact. You rather 'feel' something is so- rather than 'think' or know it is so. At worst you lie.

Anyone who Googles 'McCain + education' will find too numerous to count references to his matriculation at a Service Academy- THE Naval Academy and of course there is NO 'money' TUITION to be paid by anyone. IF any payment is later extracted it's paid in blood and broken body parts. IE. getting shot out of the sky, beaten, broken and tortured for 5 yrs in Hanoi.

Got it now, Comrade?

Kahuna3000

Answer 5

He used a combination of loans, scholarships, and some money his grandparents had saved up for his education. And it should be noted that he paid back all of his college loans in a timely fashion.

Answer 6

i think he worked a part time job that helped him to pay for his school fees .

It is still unknown - if he had a part time job to pay for Punahou, he would have had to make thousands a year due to the high tuition. The first answer is nulled.

Answer 7

By the time he entered Harvard Law School, he had been working for a few years and had saved up some money. He also used grants and student loans.

Answer 8

His grandparents saved up to help him, plus he got loans, grants, and scholarships. He told a reporter in 2011 that he finally paid off the last of his college loans about six years ago.