Students Living with Parents

Students Living Away from Parents

*A complete list of current tuition and fee charges for all student categories may be found here.
Notes about College Expense Budgets CUNY uses federal guidelines to formulate standard budgets of college expenses. A student's budget has two components: expenses directly related to attending college and living expenses. The direct expenses are the same for all BMCC students. Allowable living expenses differ according to whether you live with your parents or not.
The only portion of the above listed costs that you pay to the college directly are the tuition and fees.
CUNY makes certain assumptions in coming up with the some of the cost estimates listed. For example, it is assumed you will use the New York City transit system to travel to and from school. If you are not living with your parents, the expense budget assumes you are sharing housing costs with someone else. It is expected that you will have some measure of control over many of these expenses and will be relatively frugal.
An adjustment of $3,159.00 can be added to the 9 month budget of any independent student who must pay for care of a dependent or dependents in order for the student to attend college. Dependents may include children 12 years of age or younger, and elderly or disabled adults (including student's spouse).
An adjustment can also be made to your budget for the reasonable costs for the purchase or rental of a personal computer, but you must be able to document this expense with store receipts or charges.

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