'Living expenses' charged by schools are insanely inflated.
~3 months of food and shelter don't cost ~7k when you have roommates.
~3 months of food and shelter don't cost ~7k when you have roommates.
However, in my experience, most students live off-campus these days. There's just not enough student housing, and it's a terrible deal anyhow.
Can you source this statement? I know at UCB there were some students that lived off-campus but the vast majority lived in campus dorms IIRC.
Where I went, they didn't even guarantee housing to Freshmen, where my wife went, first 2 years were mandatory on-campus living.