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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 2023-24 aid year, the financial aid office has used state averages provided by the California Student Aid Commission to develop the following nine-month budgets:
2023-24 Budget Components | Living Off-Campus | Living at Home |
---|---|---|
Fees | $1,172 | $1,172 |
Books, Supplies, and Equipment | $938 | $938 |
Food and Housing | $19,431 | $10,125 |
Transportation | $1,764 | $1,611 |
Personal Expenses | $4,428 | $3,609 |
Total | $27,733 | $17,455 |