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To help you plan and prepare your budget, these tables provide estimated costs of living and studying at each campus. The costs will vary depending on your accommodation type, lifestyle and other factors.

The estimated costs are based on average annual costs for a single student for the duration of 37 weeks (of the academic year) only. Please note that we have not included the cost of clothing or travel expenses for leisure purposes.

Important table key

1. Assumes shared with two others.
2. For Albury-Wodonga campus, 18-week rent in advance is required.
3. Bond is usually refunded at the end of your stay provided no money is owing (and that you have given the required period of notice), and that you have caused no damage to property. Note that some private student accommodation providers will deduct a A$50 cleaning charge at the end of your stay.
4. Transport for education and work purposes.
5. Includes a placement fee of A$230 for Homestay service.
6. Includes non-refundable costs of social and transition programs and other miscellaneous fees. This cost may be lesser for students who are only in residence for one semester or commence at mid-year intake.
7. There is currently no on-campus accommodation available at Shepparton campus.
8. If you sign a lease for one year, you are legally liable to pay for 52 weeks.

Average living costs for one student (A$)

Melbourne

Accommodation	Homestay (fully catered meals)	Homestay (shared room no meals)	Renting (shared house or flat)1	One bedroom flat or apartment8	Chisholm College (non-catered)
Establishment costs
Bond3	0	0	520	1083	500
Rent in advance	1060	600	520	1083	747
Telephone, internet and utilities connection	0	0	40	120	150
Establishment costs (household items, furniture	3505	3505	500	900	7156
Total	1410	950	1580	3186	1215
Annual costs
Books, stationery, photocopying, etc.	800	800	800	800	800
Weekly costs
Weekly rent/board	265	150	120	250	168
Food, groceries and personal items	30	100	100	120	100
Utilities (gas, electricity, mobile phone, internet)	15	15	35	60	15
Travel4 (public transport, fuel)	35	35	35	35	20
Spending money	80	80	80	80	80
Average weekly costs	425	380	370	545	383
Estimated for academic year (37 weeks)	16 875	15 210	15 550	23 068	16 336

Bendigo

Accommodation	Homestay (fully catered meals)	Homestay (shared room no meals)	Renting (shared house or flat)1	One bedroom flat or apartment8	Campus (non-catered)9
Establishment costs
Bond	0	0	5368	932	500
Rent in advance	960	620	568	932	700
Telephone, internet and utilities connection	0	0	40	120	150
Establishment costs (household items, furniture	3505	3505	500	900	5806
Total	1310	970	1276	2884	1780
Annual costs
Books, stationery, photocopying, etc.	800	800	800	800	800
Weekly costs
Weekly rent/board	240	155	120	215	175
Food, groceries and personal items	30	100	100	120	100
Utilities (gas, electricity, mobile phone, internet)	15	15	35	60	15
Travel (public transport, fuel)	30	30	30	30	20
Spending money	80	80	80	80	80
Average weekly costs	395	380	365	505	390
Estimate for one academic year (37 weeks)	15 765	15 210	15 213	21 437	16 310

Albury-Wodonga

Accommodation	Renting (shared house or flat)1	Homestay (fully catered all meals)	Campus (non-catered)
Establishment costs
Bond	520	693	300
Rent in advance	520	693	21782
Telephone, internet and utilities connection	40	0	0
Establishment costs (household items, furniture	500	3505	3506
Total	1580	1736	2828
Annual costs
Books, stationery, photocopying, etc.	800	800	800
Weekly costs
Weekly rent/board	95	160	115
Food, groceries and personal items	100	30	100
Utilities (gas, electricity, mobile phone, internet)	35	15	15
Travel (public transport, fuel)	30	30	20
Spending money	80	80	80
Average weekly costs	340	315	330
Estimate for one academic year (37 weeks)	14 440	13 498	13 660

Mildura

Accommodation	Renting (shared house or flat)	One bedroom flat or apartment8	Campus (non-catered)
Establishment costs
Bond	290	520	350
Rent in advance	290	520	260
Telephone, internet and utilities connection	40	120	0
Establishment costs (household items, furniture	500	900	250
Total	1120	2060	860
Annual costs
Books, stationery, photocopying, etc.	800	800	800
Weekly costs
Weekly rent/board	70	120	130
Food, groceries and personal items	100	120	100
Utilities (gas, electricity, mobile phone, internet)	35	60	N/A
Travel (public transport, fuel)	30	30	20
Spending money	80	80	80
Average weekly costs	315	3410	330
Estimate for one academic year (37 weeks)	13 285	17 510	13 610

Shepparton

Accommodation	Renting (shared house or flat)1	One bedroom (flat or apartment)8
Establishment costs
Bond	290	520
Rent in advance	290	520
Telephone, internet and utilities connection	40	120
Establishment costs (household items, furniture	500	900
Total	1120	2060
Annual costs
Books, stationery, photocopying, etc.	800	800
Weekly costs
Weekly rent/board	70	120
Food, groceries and personal items	100	120
Utilities (gas, electricity, mobile phone, internet)	35	60
Travel (public transport, fuel)	30	30
Spending money	80	80
Average weekly costs	315	410
Estimate for one academic year (37 weeks)	13 285	17 510

Average living costs for families (all campuses) (A$)

The following table shows estimated average costs for a couple with one child, living in a two-bedroom unit/house and a child to study at government school.

Establishment costs	Couple with pre-school aged child (0-5)	Couple with primary school aged child (5-11)	Couple with secondary school aged child (12-18)
Establishment costs
Bond	1360	1360	1360
Rent in advance	1360	1360	1360
Telephone, internet and utilities connection	59	59	59
Establishment costs (household items, furniture	1500	1500	1500
Total	4279	4279	4279
Annual family costs
Books, stationery, photocopying, etc.	800	800	800
Health insurance	840	840	840
Clothing	850	850	1000
School/Kindergarten fees (incl. application fees)	1220	7590	11 130
School uniform	N/A	250	500
Miscellaneous school costs (incursions, excusrions, etc.)	N/A	150	500
Total	3710	10 480	14 770
Weekly costs
Weekly rent/board	340	340	347
Food, groceries and personal items	170	200	250
Utilities (gas, electricity, mobile phone, internet)	80	80	80
Travel (public transport, fuel)	75	94	94
Spending money	150	200	200
Average weekly costs	815	914	964
Estimate for one academic year (37 weeks)	38 144	48 577	54 717