College Cost Calculator

Project future college cost with inflation and a savings plan.

College Cost Calculator helps you project future college cost with inflation and a savings plan. Enter current annual cost, education inflation, years until start, years in school, already saved, and investment return, review the breakdown, and use the guidance below to understand what the number means — and what it does not. What the College Cost calculator does College Cost Calculator is built for money decisions — loans, savings, payments, and taxes. Project future college cost with inflation and a savings plan. You enter current annual cost, education inflation, years until start, years in school, already saved, and investment return, then Simple Calculators computes the result instantly. Rates, fees, and tax rules vary by lender and country, so treat results as planning numbers, not a contract. How the math works Enter the Current annual cost, Education inflation, Years until start, Years in school, how much is Already saved and the expected Investment return. Each school year's cost = today's cost × (1 + inflation)^(years until that school year), and those years are added up; a part year, such as the last half of 2.5 years, costs that share of a full year. Your savings grow a…