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Affordability and the Undergraduate Cost of Attendance
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Sources & Methodology:
- Estimated Cost of Attendance Data comes from UC Berkeley's Financial Aid and Scholarships Office. The data are in constant dollars.
- Average cumulative debt for graduates and percent of graduates with debt come from College InSight, a initiative of the Institute for College Access & Success. The College InSight web site displays data taken from the Common Data Set (CDS), the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and the Department of Education FISAP Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate (FISAP). College-level student debt and undergraduate financial aid data © 2017 Peterson's LLC, all rights reserved.
- Average cumulative debt for graduates is defined by the Institute for College Access & Success and Peterson's LLC as the average cumulative student loan amount borrowed by graduates with student loan debt to finance their undergraduate education.
- Percent of graduates with debt is defined by the Institute for College Access & Success and Peterson's LLC as the percent of graduates who were estimated to have borrowed from any source at any time to finance their undergraduate education.
- Loan and work expectation inflation calculations come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Notes on Other Available Data:
- Another source for similar data is the UC Information Center dashboard titled Net Cost of Attendance.
- UC Berkeley's Office of Planning & Analysis published an analysis of the results from a Housing Survey that went out to 27,292 undergraduate students during April & May of 2017.