I sure hope it is better than a civilian college. In our experience for the past two years of dual-credit classes, we've spent over $1000 on books. We only bought the books on the "required" list, several of them son never even cracked open. When we tried to sell them back to the school, they were not buying "that" book back at this time, for 4 of the five we purchased this year. Someone told us to try to sell them on Amazon, so we may try that. I personally think the entire textbook industry is a rip off. I mean, really, $400 for one book?