College Tuition

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All schools will charge differently. Typically, anyways, Tuition, Housing, Meal fees are a direct costs because they are your college living essentials. You more than likely shouldn’t have to worry about tremendous amounts of loan money for these costs because they can be covered by financial aid (make sure to fill out FAFSA for you academic year) upon acceptance and intent for attendance. If the college fails to meet a comfortable coverage of financial aid here, then you’ll have to adjust financial plans for loans.

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An actual example of my expenses for my college,

Direct Costs estimation (first year): Tuition ($44,400) ; Hosing, Meals, and other fees ($7,956) = total direct ($52,356) - ($amount financial aid) - ($scholarly aid).

Indirect Costs estimation (first year): Books and supplies ($1,000) ; Personal expenses varies ($2,600) = total indirect ($3,600) - ($remaining scholarly aid)

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This is perhaps a good example for roughly all colleges: direct costs are your essentials that college’s provide (education, housing, feeding, health, etc.) and indirect costs are all personalized (books for desired major, study tools, technology, accommodation needs, transportation, groceries, etc.).

You’ll see that the largest factor in total college expenses will reside based off of college/university. Meanwhile, your personal expenses will be a factor of (to a lesser degree) the geography of the institution (i.e urban, suburban, rural etc.).

Hope this helps!!