TUITION AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships

Scholarship information and applications will be provided upon acceptance after applying

CCSM is proud to offer several scholarship opportunities for students, if you would like more information about scholarships offered at CCSM, please feel free to reach out to us via email.

There are also a wide variety of scholarships available online and we encourage you to research scholarships that you qualify for and apply.*

*Please note that outside scholarships may have deadlines and/or cutoff dates, and thus may not be readily available.

Tuition and Fees

Estimated Program Cost: $35,925*** 

Total Program Credits: 91

Cost per Credit: $350

Application Fee: $75 (non-refundable)

One-Time Enrollment Fees: $1,500*

Skills Fee (per semester): $500

Payment Plans

CCSM offers monthly and semester payment plans for students. Typically monthly payments for these plans average around $900-$1,500 per month based on enrolled credits each semester. Each student’s plan is individually created for them based on their down payment and transfer credits. Semester payments need to be paid in full by the start of each semester. These payment plans are offered with 0% interest financing.

Crowdfunding

Sharing your journey with family, friends, and colleagues can be a great way to help raise funds for your education. There are so many amazing options available including:

• Bonfire
• Fundly
• Go Fund Me

We encourage you to set up your own page on one, or more, of these sites.

Personal Loans

Students may seek personal loans from a bank or local credit union. If students need any documentation of acceptance or enrollment to help in their application process, we are happy to provide them.

At this time we do not participate in federal financial aid programs.

About The Claudia Booker Scholarship

In honor of the five-year anniversary of the passing of our beloved midwife elder and activist, we pause to remember a powerful voice for midwives, birthing rights, and community care.
Midwifery, midwives, and the right to choose with whom, how, and where to give birth have long been protected by guardians of birth. Throughout time, individuals like Claudia have stood at the forefront—using their voices to advocate for midwives, communities, and midwifery organizations.
With a deep sense of commitment to our students and to the state of Florida—home to the headquarters of Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery— the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia state area— Claudia Booker’s home area— and Puerto Rico, we have created this scholarship in her honor. May it continue the work she championed and support the future of midwifery.

This scholarship was established to support our vision of a maternity care climate saturated with culturally sensitive and racially congruent care that results in equitable and superior outcomes in maternal and infant health for all populations by removing financial barriers for students that currently reside in our founding state of Florida, as well as Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Puerto Rico who aspire to become midwives.

Claudia Booker, a beloved midwife, doula, and lifelong advocate for mothers and babies, was born and raised in Washington, DC. Her remarkable journey began with a B.A. in Sociology and an M.Ed. from the University of Hartford, followed by a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. Before turning to birth work, she led a distinguished legal career, including serving as a DC Contract Appeals Board Judge, Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Chief Contracting Officer for major city agencies. She also served in President Jimmy Carter’s advance team.

Claudia later answered a deeper calling—training in midwifery at several institutions, including The Farm Midwifery Center with Ina May Gaskin, and apprenticing across the U.S. and in Senegal. She became a Certified Professional Midwife in 2011, licensed in both Virginia and Maryland.

Through her Birthing Hands Midwifery and Birth Services practice, Claudia supported hundreds of families with wisdom, compassion, and care. She volunteered internationally, offering advanced midwifery care in Bali and in the Philippines after Typhoon Yolanda. Her commitment to equity was unwavering—she co-founded the Grand Challenge project to uplift African-American birth workers and served over a decade on DC’s Infant Mortality Review Committee.