Cost-per-credit matrix
Paste the fee lines from two or three programmes and read cost per credit, per contact hour and per module side by side — including the fees brochures keep in a footnote.
1 · Paste each programme's fee lines
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Pasted fee lines stay in this tab; the matrix is recomputed on this device and no fee sheet is uploaded anywhere.
Perspective: Before: the reader compared sticker prices. After: they can see one programme charging 31% more per credit because the fees were normalised from their own sheet.
2 · Read the normalised columns
Paid layer: the decision sheet
one-time step · the free reading above stays complete
Free tier
- one complete matrix run
- cost per credit and per contact hour
- state link that reopens the same fee lines
What $7 one-time adds
- three saved programme comparisons on this device
- printable one-page decision sheet with the arithmetic shown
- CSV export of every normalised column
One avoided module at $1,840 is 260× the price; the comparable it undercuts is an education consultant at $150–$400 an hour, whose first hour costs more than this sheet.
Local history (this device)
- No saved runs yet — your first run files here.
Your purchase is handled through secure checkout. When you return, your extras are ready on this device — no account, no fuss, and your work stays private in this browser.
Boundary and sources
This is arithmetic on fee lines you supply, not admissions advice and not a guarantee of cost. Fees change, levies are sometimes waivable, and funded places alter the total. Confirm every figure with the registrar in writing before you commit money, and speak to the institution's finance office if a levy looks unexplained.
- Fee lines are the reader's own quotes; no institutional figure is asserted by this tool.
- Normalisation method: total fee ÷ credits, and total fee ÷ contact hours, both printed beside the raw inputs.
- Where a programme bills per module, paste the module fee and module credits and the same arithmetic applies.
Mechanism: competence-autonomy-loop