<p>How much will the full tuition of Uc Berkeley cost room and housing and tuition for 2 years?
Do I save a lof of money compared to people who went to berkeley for 4 full years?</p>
<p>Nowadays, each year is going to be AT LEAST 25k (without financial aid), so probably around 50k. Quite substantial.</p>
<p>Yeah, tuition alone is about 13,300 per year (not including books/room&board/various expenses). It’s obviously much cheaper to go to CC. On the other hand, hypothetically speaking, if someone were to get into Cal as a freshman, there’s no telling whether they would get in as a transfer.</p>
<p>I’m going to go the other way, for a large number of students, going to CC rather than directly to UC may actually cost money.</p>
<p><em>dodges tomatoes being thrown</em></p>
<p>If you’re already accepted to one of the top-ter UC’s and your major is going to be providing a decent wage following graduation pre-law, med, or STEM field, then by going to CC, you will likely delay your graduation by if not a few semesters, perhaps a year or 2, this is especially true right now due to the class cuts. These high pay fields can easily reach 6 figures and thus a 6 month delay due to an extra semester of classes could potentially be $50K. Now that 20K that you saved going to CC rather than paying UC tution has cost you 30K.</p>
<p>In the other direction, the UC practically provides complete tution aid for most middle and lower class students. I’m getting 10K in financial aid per year for attending my UC, their tuition is 12K a year. There is essentially no difference at this point since 2K a year is hardly a substantial sum of money. Living at home is much easier at CC than UC and this leads to it’s own savings but I don’t believe that it is worth it.</p>
<p>@ feedayeen Agreed. </p>
<p>If you get into the school you want, I would go now but from their back posts, I think the OP already went to CC and is transferring… not sure why they’re asking this though.</p>
<p>I agree with feedayeen too. CC’s are a little crowded right now and most people get stuck for at least 3 years. You can hardly get the classes that you need especially during your first year because you get a really late registration date.</p>
<p>This all depends, odds are if you got into Berkeley as a freshman your getting some type of scholarship or financial aid.</p>
<p>Normally I’d say something like " You’ll save tons of cash" , but no . Now maybe for a student from a well off family who doesn’t get a significant scholarship( say both mom and dad are department heads at major companies and combined income is around 175k) it would make sense to go to CC and transfer, 25k a year is alot of money !!!</p>
<p>And you can transfer out in 2 years, you just have to enroll day ONE and get your requirements done first( not IGETC, but the basic admission requirements ). The sad thing about the budget cuts is alot of students who work full time don’t get as many classes . I’ve seen certain math classes fill up day one of enrollment . But as long as you do the requirements( basically math , 2 English classes and a bunch of random courses you’ll probably do anyway- check them on assist ) your good .</p>
<p>I finished my time at my cc in two years, and I’m now going to be a junior at Cal. There’s no way I would have been able to pay for Cal straight out of high school (not that I can necessarily pay for it now). All I would have gotten by going to Cal straight out of high school would be more student loans. I say community college is the way to go, at least for me.</p>
<p>taylorj took the words right out of my mouth (except I’m going to UCI).</p>