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Residency:

• Residency costs for on-campus, or with a relative are averaged to alleviate the need for multiple budgets for residents and non-residents. The average number of credit hours for full-time students for 2007-08 was 15.2 per term with 1.9 credit hours of this total being distance education hours (rounded up from 1.9 to allow for a typical 3 credit hour class).
• Room and board costs are an average of Barton Housing costs and regional averages from College board statistics.

Enrollment Status:

• The full-time budget for 2008-09 is based upon 16 credit hours (15.2 rounded up to account for total hours needed to graduate within 2 years) with 3 credit hours of distance education (rounded up from 1.9)
• In cases of mixed enrollment, the greater of the annual budgets will be used. (Example: fall semester half-time/Spring semester three quarter time, the student will be assigned a three-quarter time budget.)
• Room and Board, personal, and transportation expenses will be prorated proportionately for students who attend less than a full semester (at least 15 weeks).

Nursing, MLT and Auto Programs

• The MLT and Nursing programs have special expenses unique to the programs. Students in either of these programs, as identified by the MLT and Nursing departments, will have these added components.
  • Nursing Expenses: An expense of $1,376.00 will be added for all students who are in Barton's first or second year nursing program.
  • MLT Expenses: An expense of $600 will be added for all students who are in Barton's MLT program.
  • Clinical Expenses: These expenses will be added for all Nursing and MLT students who are doing field work.

• Auto Program students that buy tools will have $1,500 in tool expenses added to their COA.

Other Miscellaneous Items:

• Books and supplies is an average for the midwest region for public two-year institutions as collected in a survey of college costs by The College Board. (http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf -- page 14)  .
• Personal expenses include computer expenses for monthly ISP service and a $300 annual PC upgrade. These figures came from research done of ISP service rates and also the costs of PC equipment.
• Both transportation and personal expenses were arrived at by student surveys taken by the Financial Aid Office.
• Loan Fees are considered an additional component (non-standard) and based upon an estimate of a percentage of the gross loan amount.

• Child/Elder care is also considered a non-standard budget component and is added on a case-by-case basis. for this to be added to the COA, students must identify this when they complete their student loan acceptance.
  • For dependents 5 years of age or under or elder care we use the following chart. These expenses were taken from a survey done of local daycare and Barton daycare services.

• Disability expenses, another non-standard component, are added on a case-by-case basis for documented expenses. For these to be added to the COA students must identify this when they complete their student loan acceptance form and provide the Financial Aid Office with documentation to support their expenses.

You Should Also Know:

• On a case-by-case basis, if it is determined through the financial aid verification process that any of the COA component expenses are paid for a student by a 3rd party, the COA will be adjusted to reflect only those expenses that a student has during their enrollment period.
• LSEC budgets are the same as for other classes except with out the tuition and fees component.
• If the COA is not reflective of the estimated expenses, students may request an adjustment by contacting Barton's Financial Aid OFfice. the COA may be adjusted on a case-by-case basis upon submission of documentation showing justification.