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%.
The average annual investment return from 1950-2000 was less than one-half of 1% per year, after adjusting for inï¬ation. The chart above shows what happened to money invested in a home from 1950 to 2008. The home price index was set to start at 100 in 1950.