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%.
Dow jones index average and median historical return based on 1 year , 5 year, 10 year and 20 year are shown in the below table. Dow Jones yearly return are also shown in the graph From 1921 to 2016.Djia had 7.4% percent return on average from 1966 to present. Stock market historical returns last 50 years was,on average, 7.4 percent without adjusting inflation and dividends.