Tuition, Cost & Aid

The financial aid situation went fairly well for me. Taking advantage of every opportunity available requires alot of research and questions. It helps to have a back up plan thats cheaper too.

At face value, B-W seems pretty darn steep. The classrooms and dorms are very comfortable, but not luxurious as you might expect from a $36,000 a year ($37,000 for conservatory students) college. The reason I give its bang for the buck a five-star rating is because of their generosity. Being a private school B-W is able to award a LOT more money than a state school. My accumulative GPA for high school was a 3.2 (on a 4.0 scale), yet I got a $7,500 4-year renewable scholarship; not only that, but they gave me $10,500 in 4-year renewable grants. That totals out to a whooping $18,000 renewable each year!

The school is not the cheapest out there, but for the personal atmosphere and quality education, I think it does pretty well. The school is also pretty good about giving out scholarships to incoming students, so it's very unlikely you'll have to pay the full tuition price in your time here.

Your meal plan is handled through your Jacket Express card, which usually carries about $2000, which you load it with at the beginning of the year from your tuition. You can use that on food, vending machines, the bookstore, or wherever. The nice thing is that if you don't use all of the money by the end of the semester, you get the rest back or it goes towards your next semester's tuition, which the school likes to advertise since you don't get that at a lot of other schools. I got $600 back last semester, but it all depends on how much you spend throughout the year.

Furthermore, admission to the football games is free, as is access to the Recreational Facilities and many other activities on campus. You also get three sessions with a personal trainer per semester, and there are things such as free kick boxing classes and water aerobics that you can take.

The food is overpriced in my opinion, and not the best quality, but I feel like that describes that food at most colleges. Again, you don't have a set meal plan where you pay x money in your tuition for y meals each week, so you can spend as little or as much as you want for food.

B-W offers every student some sort of financial aid. The sticker price fronts a large amount but after financial aid and scholarships are applied, the price is just the same as other state schools or even less. For out-of-state students, the B-W Grant is a higher amount so that the out-pf-state price is nearly the same as in in state student. Academically, the professors are professionals in their fields, not just teachers. They actually know what they are talking about. It is amazing that all of them know so much and are so dedicated to teaching students the subject matter from the text and experiences.

I love BW but I wish I could love the price a little more. While it is costly, I do believe it was worth it for me. I could've gone to a cheaper public school but I don't believe I would have done as well in classes with so many people in them.

The school is worth every penny with a multitude of jobs and internships availble to the student body. The careet center has a resource library available to every student with advisors to guide students to meet their aspirations. The school also provides the students with a resource center to launch their innovative ideas.

It is pretty expensive even for a college, however, they do give out a lot of scholarships to deserving students and the professors are on your side to try to get you financial aid.