<p>Can anyone briefly list the current costs for housing and tuition + any other fees. I know they have a website about this somewhere, but I couldn't find a simple answer.</p>
<p>For one thing, is the housing $8,000 a SEMESTER? Is the meal plan included on this or did SBU become manhattan? Doesn't anyone think housing costs are a little stiff for mostly triples?</p>
<p>Check this page Undergraduate</a> Tuition and Fees - Bursar/Student Accounts - Stony Brook University
I think the costs on that page are clearly listed.</p>
<p>Simple answer: Most expensive housing (West single) + Most expensive meal plan (Platinum) = $5749 / semester</p>
<p>Least expensive combination of housing and meal plan is $4264.</p>
<p>Per semester????? So, that is almost 10K just in housing and food??? Woah, doesn't anyone esle think this is a bit much? Most schools I know of are just
2k housing a year + ~1500 meal plan. Cost wise, is it better to rent a room off campus?</p>
<p>Housing on campus at Stony Brook is right around the SUNY average; it's not outlandish. It's only $4-5000 a semester for housing and food -- that $10K is for the year. Where are you living that housing is $2000 a year? Penn State has to be more than that!</p>
<p>I think off-campus costs would really depend on your situation. It's hard to generalize. Check the Off-Campus Housing Office site (OCH:</a> Welcome to Off Campus Housing) for more info.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>
<p>The standard DOUBLE at PSU is $1,910 a semester, so ~ 4k a year. With meal plan, we are looking at aroung $2700 a semester, which is much cheaper. It just seems very expensive to pay $4300 a semester for a triple room and meal plan!</p>
<p>Room AND Board at Penn State averages about $7,740 a year. Room & board at SUNY Stony Brook appears to average about $8,920 per year. As Chris said, Stony Brook's room & board costs are about average for the SUNY system. They range from $7,130 at Purchase to $11,320 at ESF @ Syracuse, with the average somewhere around $8,700. Room and board at Stony Brook is a few bucks less than at Binghamton, and is a few hundred dollars more than it is at Geneseo.</p>
<p>Well... first off, it's not true that most of the rooms are triples. Most freshmen get tripled initially, but they also get detripled throughout the year. I don't think transfers are tripled (at least none of the ones I know were), and no continuing students are tripled. Plus, if you are tripled, the school reduces the cost of your room according to how many days you're tripled (down to a certain minimum cost).</p>
<p>The meal plan is something of a ripoff because of the facility fee, but they have been renovating a lot lately so it's easy to see where it's going. Food costs on campus aren't awful, and the quality compares very favorably to other schools' dining halls that I've visited.</p>
<p>An off campus room <em>might</em> be cheaper, but not a lot cheaper unless you live a fair bit away--housing costs in the area are very inflated because of the student population. Anything within walking distance will likely be a price-gouging hellhole. There are some nice apartments in Port Jeff and Setauket though, if the off campus lifestyle appeals to you--there are some complications, like having to sublet on breaks or else pay rent when you're not there, longer commute to class, etc., but there are benefits too. Personally, I'd recommend living on campus for at least a couple of semesters so you can concentrate on getting your bearings and meeting people, and then move off campus later on if you can afford it, you've got a car, and it makes sense for you.</p>
<p>Is there any $500<= place within walking distance (20 minutes or less) from campus?</p>
<p>Also, can anyone clarify the campus division? Where do most classes take place? What is the southhamptom/etc areas? I remember going to solar to look for classes and didn't know what campus to choose.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Being able to find something in that price range will hinge on when you're looking and how exactly you define 20 minutes or less (i.e., 20 minutes until reaching some part of campus, or 20 minutes until getting to an area where there are academic buildings... the latter being pretty much impossible).</p>
<p>When you're on SOLAR, you're looking for West Campus. West Campus is where all the undergrad dorms and academic buildings are. East Campus is the hospital and Health Sciences Center (HSC), where some undergrad classes are given if you're a Health Sciences major (duh) or occasionally classes you don't have to be in a Health Sciences program for (but you're not going to have a random physics or psychology recitation there, it's only stuff that has to be there). </p>
<p>The Southampton campus is in Southampton, a ways east from Stony Brook. It used to be the Southampton campus of Long Island University, but we took it over a couple of years ago. There are people who live there and take all their classes there for the first time this year; it's supposed to be focused on environmental studies and sustainability. Looks pretty cool, but only if that's what you want to study! Marine sciences students also take a bunch of classes there, and there's an MFA program based there. SBU students at the main campus can take stuff at Southampton if they want to, and there are buses back and forth, but unless you're a marine sciences major you'll never have to take something there. I do have an English major friend who took a creative writing class there once, but it seemed pretty crazy to me... the commute back and forth was a killer.</p>