***This page will be updated at the end of March once the Fall 2024 & Spring 2025 tuition, fees, and food and housing rates have been finalized.***

These Fall 2023 & Spring 2024 budgets include estimated direct MICA charges (tuition/fees, campus housing, and food allowance) and estimated cost for indirect costs (Books, course materials, supplies, and equipment, off-campus housing/food, transportation, miscellaneous personal expenses as well as federal loan fees for loan receipts only).

For students who live on-campus or off-campus not with parents, the housing & food allowances are based on the cost for an on-campus double occupancy room ($11,860 for two semesters) and an allowance for food cost calculated based on the median cost per meal offered from MICA meal plans to cover 21 meals per week =$4,032 per semester ($8,064 for two semesters).

For students commuting from their parents’ homes, a lower “with parent” housing and food allowance is provided.  

Cost Breakdown
On Campus New Student On Campus Returning Student Off-Campus Student Off-Campus Student with Parent
Tuition 53,160 53,160 53,160   53,160
Student life fee 1,250 1,250 1,250 1,250
Tech fee 740 740 740 740
Housing 11,860   11,860 13,610 1,350
Food 8,064 8,064 8,064 2,340
Books, course materials, supplies and equipment 1,500 1,700 1,700 1,500
Miscellaneous personal expenses 800 865 865 810
Transportation 850 920 1,040 690
Federal loan fees* 1,384 1,426 1,426 1,426
Total 79,608 79,985 81,855 63,266

  *Applicable to federal student loan borrowers only