Expenses

Estimate of Student Expenses

  • Tuition (LDS Fall '08: Full time - $2580; Part time - $287/credit hour) 
  • Room and board - varies 
  • Textbooks: Total for texts used in the program: approximately $900.00 divided between semesters (approximately $700 fall of junior year - remainder divided throughout remaining semesters) 
  • Influenza vaccination: Approximately $21 (Obtain early in Fall Semester at the BYU Student Health Center or Utah County Health Department) 
  • ADA Associate Membership: $49 is the student rate per year. (The first year after graduation is $105.00 per year.  After you receive your RD, it is $210 per year for an Active membership) 
  • SDA Membership: $8 per year 
  • Medical Insurance (BYU health plan or private insurer). All students are required to participate in the student health insurance service unless they have a private plan that takes care of physician's visits in addition to major medical/surgical coverage. 
  • Appropriate shoes for Food Production Management Lab. 
  • Food handler's permit: $15 in person and $21 online. 
  • Miscellaneous expenses: Clipboard, pens, pencils, calculator; varies. 
  • Thermometer: $12 - purchased at BYU Bookstore 
  • Pendulum Court "Uniform T-shirt": $5.00 
  • Materials (up to $50 total) incurred for numerous projects in the senior year. 
  • Dietetic Internship application fees; (vary by program, approximately $35 per program) 
  • Dietetic Internship application computer matching fee: $50. 
  • RD Examination Fee: $200 (following DI completion) 
  • Annual CDR Registration Fee: $50 (following DI completion