Estimate the Cost of Living for Attending College
Posted on May 1, 2009
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When you plan to attend university or college, you do have to estimate how much money you will need for a term of studies. To estimate the cost of living you have to plan for all types of expenses and have some emergency money for times when unexpected expenses crop up. You have to first think about the tuition costs of attending post-secondary schools, which means that if it doesn matter where you attend school you can look for various schools that offer the courses you want at the cheapest price. This does mean that there will be additional transportation costs involved if you have to fly to another location and it will mean that you won get home for visits as often.
In order to estimate how much money you will need to attend university or college, you have to include first and foremost the cost of your tuition and books. This will be your greatest expense, but it is one that you definitely must have in order to obtain an education that will prepare you for your job. Then you have to look at the cost of housing. Most universities have residences for students that are much cheaper than renting an apartment. The cost can also include all your food, if this is what you want. In this way, you pay all your immediate expenses upfront and you only have to budget for clothing and entertainment. Since you will be living on campus, you won have to bother with budgeting for daily transportation getting back and forth to school.
You may have an opportunity to rent an apartment with a group of friends if you don like the prospect of moving into a dorm room with people you don’t know. The rent should be comparable to that of the cost of the room once you evenly divide the total monthly rent by the number of people sharing the apartment of house. You will have to estimate how much money you will need for food, though, as you will have to buy your own groceries. One way in which you can do this is to have one of your parents sit with you to plan a menu and then see how much it costs. With renting an apartment, you may also have to pay your own energy bills, as well as your own telephone, television and Internet expenses.
You can go online to see the cost of living in the city where you plan to attend school to find out if it is higher or lower than where you live. Many locations five student discounts so you need to check these out to see where you can save money. Some of the things that many college students forget to include when they want to estimate how much their cost of living will be include the cost of getting your hair cut, laundry costs, cosmetics and personal hygiene needs. Although they do not seem to be very important, they can certainly add up over time.
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You forgot to mention transportation cost!!!
Damn subway for Tokyo is sure expensive!!!
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I WORK FOR A STUDENT LOAN COMPANY IN TEXAS, AND IF YOUR CHILD DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR FINANCIAL AID, SCHOLARSHIPS, OR GRANTS YOU CAN APPLY FOR A PARENT PLUS LOAN THROUGH YOUR SCHOOLS FINANCIAL AID OFFICE, AND IF YOU DON'T QUALIFY THEN YOUR STUDENT WILL THEN BE ABLE TO QUALIFY FOR A STUDENT LOAN…GOOD LUCK
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http://nursing.uaa.alaska.edu/
http://www.uaf.edu/catalog/current/programs/allied_health.html
Both campuses have resources for new students:
http://www.uaf.edu/uaf/future/index.html
And you can check out classifieds in the local papers for information on what different things cost, jobs, apartments, ect.:
http://www.adn.com/
http://www.newsminer.com/
If you shop sales or at the dollar store you could eat for as little as 3.00 dollars a day assuming you spend only one dollar per meal which will not be much, maybe some spaghettios or ravioli. If you wish to eat better than that maybe sandwiches or frozen pizza it will be a lot more than that, you could have just one meal a day at most any fast food places now have meals for under $5.00. You could also work at the cafeteria or a restaurant and a lot of them give you one free meal a day as part of the deal. Also every grocery store has marked down items in all of their perishable departments and some go as much as 50% or more off of the regular price. On the weekends and some weekdays you can go to places like Costco and Sam's Clubs and get free samples of many of the products they sell and by the time you get out of there you are full. If all else fails you can have a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or bologna, or tuna, and as you mentioned top ramen. Good Luck in school and soon you will be able to have steak and potatoes whenever you want them. As for the gas there is not much you can do about that but buy either at the big box stores that give a good discount, or at some of the big grocery stores if you buy a certain amount of groceries you get like 10 cents a gallon off of gas, and just limit your driving when not going to school and combine your trips, if you are headed home then just stop at places only on your route if you can.
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does anybody know the name of this song? HELP PLEASE.
i think this is the first video on youtube that had the camera on someone’s face, and that someone was talking about something not exactly humorous that I actually watched from beginning to end… I want to go to Tokyo
Well, I had my parents sign a waiver for me to enlist in the Navy at the age of 17. I made really good money, was able to take college level courses after about a year or so of service, and put a great deal of thought into what I wanted to major in.
I did the work full time + school full time thing after I got out of the Navy, and it isn't any fun… especially when you get married! =) My wife was ready to skin me alive…
Whichever road you choose, always look for ways to save money… bundle your cable, internet and phone services into one bill through your cable provider!
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I have just read this out loud and my 2 year old son says "oh ma God" it was the funniest thing, he doesn't say much but that one really set him off..
I think what your trying to say is….
You want to know the cost of going to university in the USA but you live in Canada…Try that ….Ren
Its written in the video description on the side. It always is.
At the moment, tuition at the university is $24,768 for out-of-state students. Room and board ranges from $6,578 to $7,636. However, trust me, the tuition costs will increase a lot by the time you're enrolling for college (estimates for nation-wide tuition increases are at 7% per year).
Just FYI, the Kinsey Institute isn't really an school of the university. It doesn't provide undergraduate study opportunities. From its website, it provides:
* development of collections of resources for scholars;
* programs of research and research publications;
* presentation of interdisciplinary conferences and seminars;
* provision of information services for the general public;
* provision of student-oriented sexuality information services through the internet;
* and graduate training.
You can easily take and focus on human sexuality and gender studies, the university offers many courses in that area. However, the institute itself does not offer major or minor programs for undergraduates. They do co-sponsor a Ph.D. minor in human sexuality, but that's for (of course) Ph.D. students at the university.
Like I said above, you can take human sexuality and gender studies classes and major in someone that can incorporate that interest, such as Gender Studies. You would be studying in the College of Arts and Sciences.
At the moment, the university isn't too difficult to get into. They do have high standards, though, and those standards are increasing due to the recognize that different schools (such as the Kelley Business School and the Jacobs School of Music) are receiving.
From the admissions website, beginning in 2011, they expect applicants to have at least a 3.0 GPA, be in the top 30% of their class, and to score above the national average on either the SAT or ACT.
Add.: Posted below are some of the websites from which you can get more information about IU and what they have to offer. The last one is a list of major programs. However, at IU, you can also create your own major through the Individualized Major Program. So, if Human Sexuality is something that you're really interested in, you can pretty much form that major for yourself. However, it would still not be through the Kinsey Institute, it would be through the College of Arts & Sciences.
wow, internet will cost me P3000 (converted in peso) in Tokyo compared to P1200 that i pay in my country. Nevertheless, from what i heard the salary will compensate for the high standard of living there.
sorry, still cannot find the name. CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME. THANKS.
I spend 5,000 a month in NYC. Good luck
no there are no good schools here and the wage is just a few dollars an hour,and the cost of living is very expensive
At 2:25, did you knock over a glass? Your face for a second is like…’Crap…there goes that vodka…’
Your financial aid will be less than you think…and your family contribution more than you ever thought it would be.
Moving to the state and living there for a year, putting off starting school, and establishing yourself as an independent would make your tuition cheaper (unless it's a private school).
Go to an in-state school…it's cheaper.
Or completely finance everything with student loans.