Whether Private or Public, College, University, Community College, or Technical School, this report will enable you to cut costs.

What you will find in our Exploring School Cost Report:

• College cost variables - Fixed expenses are easy, how to budget irregular expenses
• Private vs Public - Options to room and board on or off campus.
• Furniture and equipment - Besides books, consider computer, TV, music.
• Entertainment - Education includes the Arts, Sports, and Socializing.
• Transportation - Away from home, around town and off campus visits.
• Medical Insurance - Parents limits and what is offered on campus.
• Budgets - Enough debt, ways to be responsible and reduce expenses.

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The school catalogue presents cost examples but what is the real cost or what is the total cost? Make use of the CPR Cost Calculator to set up a budget as a basis to examine what the cost might be for you personally. Once you have real cost estimated the question is how can you reduce the cost of certain items? For example do you need new books or will used books accomplish the task. Do you have to buy all the books a professor list or can you check them out at the library, borrow from classmates or are they just for reference? Textbooks can amount to one fifth of your college cost.

The CPR nutshell theory would lump many strategies together and form your own recipe that will work for you. When you stand back and examine all the marketing materials from the higher education system and the books published, most guide you as a group. The most effective practice I have seen used to achieve the best education at a relative cost is to constantly inquire. Never accept no for an answer, keep asking how can I, where, what, when, why, who. The answer you get this time may be different the next time you ask. One person may say no another yes. Learn how the system works, it will pay off with many rewards.