Citadel Military College of South Carolina

What is the cost of studying for a year at Citadel Military College of South Carolina?

For 2024-25, reported full-time undergraduate tuition and required fees total $12,570 for South Carolina residents: $8,356 in tuition plus $4,214 in fees. For nonresidents, the corresponding components total $41,657. The residency difference is therefore a major financial consideration before housing, meals or other expenses are added.

• South Carolina resident undergraduate tuition and required fees, 2025-26: $12,570.
• Nonresident undergraduate tuition and required fees, 2025-26: $41,657.
• Reported room-and-board charge: approximately $10,899; actual charges depend on the applicable housing and dining arrangements.

Those figures are not a complete annual cost of attendance. Students also need to budget for books and course materials, transportation, personal expenses and any cadet-specific required items. They should use one current, applicant-specific cost-of-attendance estimate when planning rather than combine published amounts from different academic years. Graduate and part-time rates differ from full-time undergraduate rates.

Published charges are also different from net price, which accounts for grant and scholarship aid. Reported average net price varies by family income: for families earning $48,000 or less, it is $16,456; for families earning above $110,000, it is $24,047. Those are averages for qualifying students, not personalized quotes. Reported aid figures indicate that 90% of students received some form of financial aid, while 36% had student loans; aid can include funds that must be repaid.

Eligible students may finance attendance through federal grants and loans, institutional scholarships, applicable South Carolina aid and military or veterans' education benefits. The FAFSA is a key step for federal aid and many other awards. Applicants should check scholarship and state-aid eligibility separately from admission, then compare their individual aid offer with the full cost of attendance - not tuition alone.

What are the work-study opportunities at Citadel Military College of South Carolina?

Students may pursue campus employment and, if eligible, Federal Work-Study. Federal Work-Study is a need-based financial aid program that supports wages from an approved job; it is not a grant paid automatically to every student who qualifies. Ordinary student employment is a separate category and may have different funding and eligibility rules.

A student interested in Work-Study should complete the FAFSA, review the resulting aid offer and ask the financial aid office how approved positions are posted and filled. An award does not itself guarantee a job or mean that wages will be credited toward the bill before the student works. Cadets should also consider whether a job's hours are compatible with classes, training and other Corps commitments.

For longer-term career development, The Citadel reports individual career counseling, résumé help, career-interest assessment, a job bank, employer recruiting and job fairs. These services can help students search for internships and post-graduation work, but an internship is not required of every student and access to recruiting is not a job offer.