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College Cost Calculator

Estimate your total annual and multi-year college costs, including tuition, housing, and other expenses.

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About this calculator

Estimate your total annual college costs — tuition, housing, books, food, transportation, and other expenses — and project the full cost over your years of study.

How to use

  1. Enter your annual tuition, housing, books, food, transportation, and other expenses.
  2. Enter how many years you'll be studying, and optionally an expected annual cost increase.
  3. Press Calculate to see your annual cost and total cost over the full study period.

Tips

  • Leave the annual increase at 0% to assume costs stay flat every year.

Formula

Annual Cost = Tuition + Housing + Books + Food + Transportation + Other Total Cost = Σ (Annual Cost × (1 + Increase %)^(year − 1)) for each year of study