Costs and Financial Aid. The cost of attendance is the total amount of tuition, fees, room and board, books, supplies, and other estimated school expenses. Financial aid is a combination of grants, loans, scholarships, and work-study employment designed to help offset the total cost of attendance.
One of the major problems for an investor looking at that 10% average return figure and mistakenly expecting to realize a nice yearly profit from investing in the S&P 500 is inflation. Adjusted for inflation, the historical average annual return is only around 7%.
Returns of REITs. As measured by the MSCI U.S. REIT Index, as of June 23, 2016 U.S. REITS had produced an average annual return in the prior 5-year period of 12.34% The S&P 500 Index, a broad measure of performance for the U.S. stock market, averaged a return of 10.49% over the same period.