Enter figures your family already has: a published cost, an award letter, or a note from a school calculator you ran yourselves. This page does not scrape schools and does not predict what a college will actually charge. Year-1 net here is tuition + housing + other costs minus grants. Loans are not a discount. Do not subtract them.
To decode one letter, use the award letter decoder. To compare letters without a four-year projection, use the award comparison toolkit. How to read letters lives in compare financial aid awards.
Projection assumption
Four-year totals are a projection from your year-1 net. They are not the actual four-year cost. Choose whether later years stay flat or grow by a percentage you type. Housing, aid, and tuition can all move in ways this page cannot know.
How later years are projected
Schools (up to five)
School 1
Year-1 net: $0
School 2
Year-1 net: $0
School 3
Year-1 net: $0
School 4
Year-1 net: $0
School 5
Year-1 net: $0
Ranked projection
| Rank | School | Year-1 net | Four-year projection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enter at least two named schools with a cost. | |||
Copy the ranking
Copy turns on when two or more named schools have a cost you entered (tuition, housing, or other). Grants alone do not count. Year-1 net does not go below $0.