This calculator estimates the total cost of a degree programme rather than one year: tuition across all semesters, plus hostel and mess, examination fees, and one-off admission and caution deposits, with an assumption for annual fee escalation.
An estimate from figures you enter. Colleges revise fees between years, and escalation clauses vary, so treat the total as indicative.
Families almost always compare colleges on first-year tuition, which is the number colleges publish. The number that matters is the four-year total including hostel, and it is frequently more than double the figure being compared.
The costs that are real, recurring, and rarely in the headline figure.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
Because first-year tuition is the number colleges publish and the least useful one. With hostel, escalation and examination fees, the four-year total is often more than double what families are comparing.
Yes, as a one-off, since they are a real cash requirement at admission even though they are refundable in principle.
Checked by the Implementations desk on 1 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.
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