Your math seems waaaaay off. But first, it's not technically a 5 year degree. It's a 4 year undergrad with grad taking about 4 to 6 terms on average after that.

So, undergrad:

8 terms x $6,600= $52,800

7 co-op terms x $610=$4,270

your undergrad will cost just under $60k.

Grad:

$2,327 per term x (let's say 5 terms) = about $12k

So be prepared to pay about $75k for the whole thing (not including the rental of said basement dungeon).

I paid about 1/3 of that at the same school 15 years ago.  If the prices were this high when I went, I would have skipped architecture all-together.  

Also, don't be so sure you got in :)

Thanks for the input, I was really stressing out about both the price and the portfolio (I had to mail-in) now I can just keep myself awake at night stressing about acceptance.

Also, remember that you will (most likely) be making money on your co-op terms. The set-up is nice enough that you can usually make enough money from one co-op term to cover the entire next term of academia (my roommate is in 3B Civil and that has been the case for him, although if you do not live at home for the co-op you may not make quite enough). Good luck on the application; its a tough school to get into.

Note that: First-year tuition – 2 academic terms/8 months = $6,600

so that's more like 4 (years) x $6,600 = $26,400

Plus you go to Rome one semester and add in a few other trips, you'll average around $30,000 for your entire academic 5-year life at Waterloo. Not too bad. And you'll probably won't live in a basement with 5 other kids.. rent in Cambridge is cheap. gl.

Architecture tuition at Waterloo is WAY more than $3,300/term. Waterloo's tuition in general isn't cheap; prices go up for professional programs and also go up again for co-op programs.

oops, tricks, you appear to be correct. my bad.

So the total will be about $40-$50k for the whole thing. Not bad, especially compared to what poor yankees have to pay.

Yeah, I did forget to add the $600 co-op fee for the next 3 years.. but it should still be in around $30,000 in total for 5 years (8 academic terms) of school. I'm not sure what you're going on about really, Waterloo (like most public universities) is relatively cheap.

For full disclosure, check here: http://www.findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca/financing/expenses.php

And that $4200 per 'extra fees' is pretty generous, the only terms where you might require spending that much on top of tuition are first year and fourth year.

At SCI-Arc 5 year BARCH = $258,340 (does not include misc. expenses) per their website:

http://www.sciarc.edu/portal/admissions/tuition/index.html

Also.. saltymoob are you an international student? If so, keep in mind your tuition will be jacked up 4x to around $14,000 a term.

Your numbers for tuition seem solid, the living expenses seem daunting as per the university's mail-outs. At $400/month  plus food and "field trips" the total cost seems to be a lot more than $75 000.

Tectonic,

There are people that can afford that. They can probably self-generate clients afterwards because they are wealthy.

The whole profession is RAPIDLY mutating and we'll see where we end up.

Sorry, I was accounting for additional fees on top of tuition in above post. Remember that you will pay in the neighbourhood of $600/term of extra fees, and $600/term for co-op fees, putting you in the $4500/term neighbourhood.