Estimate Your Summer Program Cost

Select your courses by session. This estimate includes tuition, site fees, applicable course-specific fees, and optional published financial aid estimates.

May Session (3 weeks)

Students may take 1 course in May Session.

Course

Campus

Summer Session I (5 weeks)

Students may take up to 2 courses. Allowed combinations: 2 Great Lakes, or 1 Great Lakes + 1 Online. Students may take only 1 Online course per session. Two in-person Great Lakes courses must be on different schedules (A/B). Research Methods is compatible with either schedule.

Course 1

Campus

Summer Session II (5 weeks)

Students may take up to 2 courses. Allowed combinations: 2 Great Lakes, 1 Great Lakes + 1 Online, or 2 Pacific Rim. Students may take only 1 Online course per session. Pacific Rim requires 2 Pacific Rim courses. Two in-person courses in the same session must be on different schedules (A/B). Research Methods is compatible with either schedule.

Course 1

Campus

Estimate Financial Aid

Use this section to estimate the two published per-credit awards below. Other grants, fellowships, and certificate-completion support are not estimated automatically; confirmed additional aid can be entered below as a planning amount.

Published aid

Honors Alumni Scholarship
$75 per selected credit hour for eligible returning alumni with at least a 3.0 GPA in prior Au Sable courses. Au Sable Academic Scholar Award
$90 per selected credit hour for eligible students with a GPA greater than 3.79 and at least two completed semesters (or 24 credit hours), subject to application requirements.

Additional expected aid (optional)

Enter an amount only if you have been told to expect additional aid or want to model a scenario. This calculator does not automatically estimate Au Sable Grants, Certificate Completion Grants, Missionary Earthkeeping Fellowships, Creation Care Outreach Fellowships, or other individualized awards.

Tuition $0

Site Fees $0

Course-Specific Fees $0

Estimated Aid Applied to Tuition -$0

Estimated Total After Aid $0

This calculator provides an estimate only. Tuition deposits are applied to the final account balance and are not added as a separate program cost here. Financial aid in this estimator is capped at tuition and does not reduce site fees or course-specific fees. Textbooks/supplies (approximately $120–$180 per course) and travel to program sites are not included.

Campus, Session and Course Credits	Tuition	Site Fees	Base Total before Financial Aid
Great Lakes May Session (three weeks), one course, 4 credits	$2,950	$1,740	$4,690
Costa Rica May Session (three weeks), one course, 4 credits	$2,950	$2,475	$5,425
Online May Session (three weeks), one course, 3 credits	$2,212.50	$0	$2,212.50
Great Lakes Summer Session I or II (five weeks), two courses, 8 credits	$5,900	$2,900	$8,800
Great Lakes Summer Session I or II (five weeks), one course, 4 credits	$2,950	$2,900	$5,850
Online Summer Session I or II (five weeks), one course, 4 credits	$2,950	$0	$2,950
Pacific Rim Summer Session II (five weeks), two courses, 8 credits	$5,900	$4,725	$10,625

2027 rates: Tuition is $737.50 per credit. Site fees are $580 per week at Great Lakes, $825 per week in Costa Rica, and $945 per week at Pacific Rim. Online courses have no site fee. Totals shown above do not include financial aid, travel, textbooks and supplies, or applicable course-specific fees. Use the cost calculator above for an estimate based on your specific course selections.