Cost of Berkeley

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I’m getting a lot of conflicting information. Princeton Review gives me the below numbers. Berkeley students give me much higher numbers (10k room and board PER SEMESTER and 8k Tuition per I dont know) and worried parents give me the mythical 40k number.</p>

<p>Annual Expenses
In-State Tuition: $0
Out-State Tuition: $23,686
How much for 4 years?
Room & board: $11,630
Average book and supply expenses: $1,240
Required fees: $5,956</p>

<p>How much does Berkeley REALLY COST per semester and per year?</p>

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<p>In state from the official Berkeley site:</p>

<p>Total Resident Budget</p>

<p>$21,538 on campus</p>

<p>$19,738 off</p>

<p>$14,864 with relative</p>

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<p>I attended the Diversity forum on March 19 at UCB. They gave us the most recent student budget numbers (Dated March 11, 2005)</p>

<p>$23,138 (On Campus)
$20,312 (Off)
$15,672 (With Relatives)</p>

<p>These numbers are for in-state. Add $17,820 for non residents</p>

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<p>what diversity forum did you attend. was that the one from the coalition of diversity? i'm confused</p>

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<p>Sorry, it was called "The coalition for excellence and diversity in Math, Science and Engineering"</p>

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<p>yeah i got a letter mailed from that diveristy thing and i'm engineer major but i didn't go. what did they mostly talk about.</p>

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<p>I pay about 4000 in registration fees per semester and exactly 1234.50 a month for the dorm. I don't really eat out or shop, but I use about 200 bucks a month for personal exspenses.</p>

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<p>edit- nm, i pay $1034 a month for housing/food, a double in unit 1</p>

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<p>hot damn. thank gray davis and ahnold.</p>

<p>Just 3 years ago, it only cost me $12000 per year to have an offcampus studio (1 block away) and full meal plan. Of course, fees were only like $4200 per year. Now it's like $6700. And the meal plan is now $300 more expensive per year.</p>

<p>If you're a tight wad, you're looking at a yearly cost of:</p>

<p>6700 fees
2250 meal plan
450x12 = 5400 rent
500 books
1000 misc</p>

<p>total: $16000 per year off campus.</p>

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<p>considering a unit 1 double is $1050 and a full meal plan is $250/month, you're paying $800 monthly rent to live in a crappy dorm room.</p>

<p>sh** has really gone up since I left. Back in '98, a Freeborn double was only about $800 including a full meal plan.</p>

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<p>Wow, almost $41,000 for me.
Ugh</p>

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<p>on-campus housing at CAL is the most expensive of all the UCs. I don't know why, but it runs roughly 1K more per year than the other UCs for comparable accomodations. One alternative is the co-ops. They cost about 1/2 the amount of a dorm room (but you do need to work some hours per week)</p>