See the thing is, is I did do that very same research and did NOT come to the same conclusion. I cant speak for all FBO's, just mainly the ones around the midwest. MOST of them(since I didnt look at all bajillion of them) charge the same or more than the "fancy new airplanes with all the do-dads" that I fly at UND. Psst, by the way, we can turn the "do-dads" off.
Again, no one's said that UND isnt being lumped into this whole "flight schools are evil" thread.
I dont know if you guys are in college or have graduated recently, but if you're going to school and doing flight training its gona cost you somewhere between 24-80,000 dollars for tuition alone depending on where you go. I, for example, will pay somewhere around 64,000 for my entire education, 77,000-125,000 with the college/FBO options I had back home.