Costs and Financial Aid. The cost of attendance is the total amount of tuition, fees, room and board, books, supplies, and other estimated school expenses. Financial aid is a combination of grants, loans, scholarships, and work-study employment designed to help offset the total cost of attendance.
One of the major problems for an investor looking at that 10% average return figure and mistakenly expecting to realize a nice yearly profit from investing in the S&P 500 is inflation. Adjusted for inflation, the historical average annual return is only around 7%.
Vanguard - average annual total return. average annual total return. Provides the average return of the fund over a specific period of time. For example, if a fund's net asset value (NAV) started at $10 and after 3 years it rose to $15, the fund's average annual return would be about 14.47%. This number shows how much the fund averaged each year during the 3-year period to get to its $15 NAV.