<p>Yes, $40,000 per year is about the total cost–and it will go up slightly each year.</p>
<p>This consists of an out-of-state tuition fee of $22,000 plus fees of around $1,000, plus housing of $8,000 plus food at $6,000 plus books at $2,000 plus transportation of around $1,000 per year. Your daughter would pay $9,000 less on the tuition and fees because of the scholarship.</p>
<p>On the other hand, UC students will pay $9,000 next year in tuition, plus fees of $1,000, plus housing of $10,000, plus food at $6,000 plus books at $2,000 but transportation of essentially zero if close (at UCSC)–and maybe $300 if at a UC farther away. </p>
<p>So the total out-of-pocket (for you/your daughter) at IU-B will be around $31,000 and at a UC around $28,200.</p>
<p>Fees at Indiana will go up in future years around $1,500 (7%) and $1,350 at the UCs (15%). Note that the tuition increases are larger at IU-B than at UC despite them being a smaller percentage. However–as you can see–the total cost difference is only around $3,000 per year. </p>
<p>The difference would be much greater if your daughter went to a Cal State–but as a person who went to both a Cal State and then later to a UC, I guarantee you that the quality of the education is not equivalent–and Indiana’s educational level is equivalent to the UC level.</p>
<p>P.S. If you daughter plans to go on for a graduate medical degree in Occupational Therapy, you might be interested in knowing that the Indiana Medical School (which is in Indianapolis) is the second largest medical school in the country. Also, I don’t know your socioeconomic situation–but–with your daughter’s GPA/test scores, if she comes from a less well-to-do family, she should apply to at least one of the lower Ivies–Brown/Penn/Cornell–because, if she gets in–most of her tuition cost would be covered.</p>