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Quick Facts: Budget and Finance

• The 2005-06 Current Funds budget for CU-Boulder totals approximately $874 million.
• Six categories of revenues are included in the campus budget:
  • Gifts, Grants and Contracts: $309 million
  • Tuition and Fees: $335 million
  • Auxiliary Revenues: $110 million
  • State Appropriations: $57 million
  • Indirect Cost Recoveries: $52 million
  • Other Revenues: $11 million
• Eight categories of expenditures are included in the campus budget:
  • Instruction, Academic Support, and Student Services: $386 million
  • Research: $200 million
  • Scholarships/Fellowships: $61 million
  • Auxiliary Operations: $101 million
  • Institutional Support: $32 million
  • Plant: $44 million
  • Transfers: $47 million
  • Public Service: $3 million

• Typical tuition rates* at CU-Boulder per semester are:

  Undergraduate resident (1)	$2,223
  Undergraduate non-resident	$10,950
  Graduate resident	$3,015
  Graduate non-resident	$10,755

  (1) FY2005-06 resident undergraduate tuition represents the student share after College Opportunity Fund (COF).

*Tuition varies by school or college. Figures shown are for full-time students in Arts and Sciences.

• In addition to tuition, students pay $463 in mandatory fees per semester for a variety of services.
• On-campus housing costs for 2005-06 are $3,990 per semester per student for a double room with a 15 or 19 meal/week plan.