Financial Aid

Your Guide To Pay For College!

Cost of Attendance

Every aid year, the financial aid office develops a basic budget based on the expenses that all students are expected to have during a year.

This budget is not an amount that the college charges, but an estimate of how much it costs to live for a typical nine-month school year. This estimate is used during the awarding process to determine your unmet financial need; many types of awards use unmet need as a criterion for eligibility or as a factor in determining award amounts.

Note: federal regulations require us to reduce a student’s budget when they enroll in less than six units in a term.

For the 2022-23 aid year, the financial aid office has used state averages provided by the California Student Aid Commission to develop the following nine-month budgets:

2022-23 Budget ComponentsLiving Off-CampusLiving at Home
Tuition$1,170$1,170
Books and Supplies$1,152$1,152
Food and Housing$17,784$9,360
Transportation$936$1,026
Personal Expenses$3,924$3,348
Total$24,966$16,056