2024-2025 Estimated
NCTA Student Budgets
RESIDENT & NON-RESIDENT
| Tuition and Fees | Housing and Food | Books and Supplies | Personal | Loan Fees | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Campus | $5,220 | $9,156 | $748 | $3,934 | $50 | $19,108 | |
| Off-campus | $5,220 | $9,760 | $748 | $3,952 | $50 | $19,730 | |
| Living at home | $5,220 | $2,664 | $748 | $3,934 | $50 | $12,616 |
*Costs based on a two-semester academic year and full-time enrollment.
Please contact the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid for tuition and fee amounts for half-time or 3/4 time enrollment.
Additional Cost of Attendance Information
- Students enrolled less than full-time as of the census date of each term will have their budgets reduced accordingly.
- All costs are subject to actual fee structures as approved by the Board of Regents and will be revised accordingly for each academic year.
- Budgets are based on 15 credit hours per semester and cover a nine-month period.
- On-campus Food is calculated using the 21 meals/wk plan. A 14 meals/wk or 18 meals/wk plan is available at a lower rate.
- On-campus Housing is calculated using an average of room rates charged for the previous year and increased by the 2024-2025 rate increase percentage. Actual room rates could be lower depending on which plan is chosen (rates can be reviewed on the Tuition and Cost page).
- Day care costs are not included but could be if the student provides documentation.
- Commuter costs will be used for students living with parent(s), relatives, or their legal guardians.
- For those students living off-campus, housing and food figures include utilities. Housing costs are determined based on a student survey. Food costs use the 21 meal plan rate.
- All budgets are single student budgets. Students with dependents will be given an allowance for family size as a part of the need analysis on their FAFSA.
- Figures represent the best estimates of expenses a full-time student in a given budget category might be expected to incur.