<p>You also have to add in a few hundred or more in “hidden” fees for many schools that are not generally added in to the “tuition + fees” amount that gets reported on the web page.</p>
<p>For example, S’s school has an “Undergraduate Engineering Fee” of $320/year, an “Honors College Fee” of $500/year, and this semester they added in a “Senior Fee” (even though he’s in this 3rd year he has enough credits to technically be considered a senior) of $110, don’t know if that is a one-time fee or per semester.</p>
<p>So that’s $900+ per year in fees that aren’t reported anywhere unless you really dig.</p>
<p>When he was a freshman there was also the “Undergraduate entering fee” for $180 and the “Freshman Counseling Fee” for $300 that I never heard about until the first bill showed up. That was a nasty surprise.</p>