TextbookCosts: Textbook Costs (2025)

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Textbook Costs (2025)

Description

Prices for textbooks for different courses in Spring 2025

Format

A data frame with 40 observations on the following 3 variables.

Field

General discipline of the course: Arts, Humanities, NaturalScience, or SocialScience

Books

Number of books required

Cost

Total cost (in dollars) for required books

Details

Data are from samples of ten courses in each of four disciplines at a liberal arts college. For each course the bookstore's website lists the required texts(s) and costs (for new books). Data were collected for the Spring 2025 semester.

Source

Bookstore online site


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