Tuition, Cost & Aid

Carroll is a VERY expensive school for most people. I would say that incoming students should definitely check out the scholarships offered at Carroll, along with anywhere else they can find them! Even if you only get the ones offered by the university, it can REALLY make a difference in price!

Your buck is stretched three ways, which is sort of difficult considering deer only have two antlers! Academic wise, yes. Carroll professors teach information relevant to the course and for your major that will be on standardized exams that you might take for graduate school or the field you will be going into. The professors establish personal and caring relationships with their students. They also always have their office doors open to answer any and all questions thoroughly and one on one. Plus as mentioned before, the small class sizes (student to professor ratio 18:1) and the fact there are no TA's is an added bonus! Tutoring and supplemental instruction (study groups led by upperclassmen who have completed and did exceptional in the course) are free to utilize by students. When it comes to housing, although the living corridors are spacious and nice, especially the suite style dorms, they are expensive. It is also required that students must live in campus housing through their junior year which can be a downside. Although dining dollars are an extremely useful thing to have, it is annoying that meal swipes do not roll over and are not refundable. I have the lowest meal plan, 140 swipes, and at the end of every semester I have anywhere from 13-30 meal swipes left over and just purchase cases, and I mean CASES, of drinks with leftover meal swipe money and it would be nice if the money was just refunded to pay for tuition.

Although the small school setting is great, the education is amazing, and the people are all incredible, it is very expensive. That being said, they came up with a very good scholarship package.

While Carroll is expensive, the price is worth the education and experience you will receive.

My main concern in this department is the price of books at the bookstore and its buyback policy. One pays so much for a book then receives little to nothing at the end of the semester. For instance, at the beginning of the school, a book was bought at $160 used. At the end of the semester, $60 of the money was given back. Many colleges have much fairer policies and try to give back at least half of the money. Also, housing is a bit overpriced, especially for the on-campus apartments. For the value of these, the quality is not there. Most of them need updates and/or repairs. Dorms are OK; in fact, most of them have been renovated within the past 5-10 years.

If your high school gpa and have a decent ACT score, 27 or higher. You get enough scholarship money to make it the same cost or less than a state school.

Being a private university, the tuition is a little pricy. But Carroll University offers scholarships to every accepted student. The tuition also does cover a lot of important things that help students success. The learning center offers tutors for every subject that students can attend without additional cost as well as sessions with a selected classmate to go over class material. This assures that students get the best out of their education and really understand the material and not just memorize to cram for exams. Tuition also covers gyms for those who enjoy working out and fitness classes that are held at specific times during the week. It also covers a campus shuttle which will take you anywhere around campus or slightly off campus as well.