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The Most Expensive Colleges

The colleges with the highest total sticker cost of attendance.

How this list is ranked

Ranked by published total cost of attendance (tuition, fees, room, and board), highest first. This is the sticker price before aid.

Ranked by Cost of attendance
Schools on this list 100
Source Federal data, same records as every school page

Admit rate, net price, and SAT in the table are for context. Rank order follows the method above, not those columns.

Rank School Admit Net price SAT
1 Pepperdine University Malibu, CA 63% $58,098 1290-1450 See record
2 Northwestern University Evanston, IL 7.7% $29,167 1510-1570 See record
3 Haverford College Haverford, PA 12.4% $25,314 1460-1550 See record
4 University of Chicago Chicago, IL 4.5% $14,860 1510-1580 See record
5 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 9.8% $32,740 1450-1550 See record
6 Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA 12.7% $35,924 1500-1570 See record
7 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 5.9% $15,846 1500-1570 See record
8 Barnard College New York, NY 8.8% $28,800 1470-1560 See record
9 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 16.4% $41,704 1440-1540 See record
10 Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY 4.0% $21,590 1510-1580 See record
11 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 5.4% $28,699 1510-1570 See record
12 Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 16.5% $30,177 1415-1540 See record
13 Georgetown University Washington, DC 12.9% $40,815 1390-1550 See record
14 Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, MO 12.1% $21,786 1500-1570 See record
15 Yale University New Haven, CT 3.9% $23,777 1470-1570 See record
16 Tufts University Medford, MA 11.5% $39,998 1470-1560 See record
17 The New School New York, NY 63% $58,741 - See record
18 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 8.8% $28,690 1500-1570 See record
19 Trinity College Hartford, CT 29% $34,832 1298-1470 See record
20 Stanford University Stanford, CA 3.6% $13,807 1510-1580 See record
21 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 5.4% $29,519 1500-1570 See record
22 Brown University Providence, RI 5.4% $25,184 1510-1580 See record
23 Amherst College Amherst, MA 9.0% $23,367 1490-1580 See record
24 Kenyon College Gambier, OH 31% $38,512 1358-1503 See record
25 Scripps College Claremont, CA 38% $36,294 1440-1540 See record
26 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 22% $28,719 1410-1520 See record
27 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 18.6% $39,343 1450-1550 See record
28 Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 34% $38,645 1360-1520 See record
29 Bennington College Bennington, VT 45% $30,947 1291-1403 See record
30 Duke University Durham, NC 5.7% $29,612 1500-1570 See record
31 Colgate University Hamilton, NY 13.9% $28,786 1430-1540 See record
32 Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA 14.0% $39,949 1400-1520 See record
33 Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 14.0% $23,781 1430-1540 See record
34 Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO 18.5% $33,375 1230-1460 See record
35 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 2.6% $16,075 - See record
36 Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA 9.6% $28,849 1470-1560 See record
37 Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Needham, MA 25% $25,171 1493-1558 See record
38 Pitzer College Claremont, CA 25% $34,191 - See record
39 Brandeis University Waltham, MA 41% $35,736 1390-1520 See record
40 Reed College Portland, OR 25% $33,013 1290-1520 See record
41 Wellesley College Wellesley, MA 14.1% $25,496 1460-1560 See record
42 Boston University Boston, MA 11.1% $24,402 1420-1530 See record
43 University of Miami Coral Gables, FL 18.9% $37,244 1320-1480 See record
44 Smith College Northampton, MA 21% $27,579 1420-1540 See record
45 University of Rochester Rochester, NY 40% $29,278 1410-1540 See record
46 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 6.4% $18,809 1520-1570 See record
47 Jewish Theological Seminary of America New York, NY 49% $43,195 1440-1580 See record
48 Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 10.8% $31,483 1445-1550 See record
49 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 37% $41,190 1430-1540 See record
50 Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, PA 28% $36,425 1310-1463 See record
51 Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 63% $40,892 1340-1490 See record
52 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 3.6% $19,066 1510-1580 See record
53 Colby College Waterville, ME 7.1% $17,180 1460-1550 See record
54 Northeastern University Oakland Oakland, CA 16.7% $25,181 1420-1520 See record
55 Pomona College Claremont, CA 7.1% $19,285 1490-1560 See record
56 Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY 21% $32,297 1340-1480 See record
57 Bard College at Simon's Rock Great Barrington, MA 96% $31,625 - See record
58 Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME 7.1% $14,398 1470-1550 See record
59 Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA 36% $26,441 1380-1530 See record
60 Carleton College Northfield, MN 20% $25,407 1450-1560 See record
61 Williams College Williamstown, MA 8.3% $17,716 1490-1570 See record
62 Occidental College Los Angeles, CA 44% $38,263 1380-1520 See record
63 Villanova University Villanova, PA 27% $43,756 1395-1510 See record
64 Northeastern University Boston, MA 5.2% $30,915 1440-1540 See record
65 Connecticut College New London, CT 37% $36,175 1350-1500 See record
66 Union College Schenectady, NY 44% $34,561 1310-1480 See record
67 Bard College Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 52% $34,649 1270-1450 See record
68 Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 46% $38,793 1270-1440 See record
69 New York University New York, NY 9.2% $37,050 1480-1560 See record
70 Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13.6% $28,985 1450-1550 See record
71 Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 7.5% $23,149 1490-1560 See record
72 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 4.6% $6,128 1510-1580 See record
73 Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA 45% $48,381 1260-1430 See record
74 The Juilliard School New York, NY 9.2% $43,571 - See record
75 George Washington University Washington, DC 47% $36,586 1350-1500 See record
76 Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA 29% $40,766 1310-1470 See record
77 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 11.7% $31,944 1500-1570 See record
78 Emory University Atlanta, GA 10.7% $22,585 1470-1550 See record
79 Emory University-Oxford College Oxford, GA 13.1% $37,920 1470-1550 See record
80 Bates College Lewiston, ME 13.3% $29,351 1420-1530 See record
81 Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 14.5% $17,648 1410-1540 See record
82 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 11.3% $26,780 1455-1560 See record
83 Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 29% $31,759 1280-1510 See record
84 Chapman University Orange, CA 65% $46,555 1260-1440 See record
85 Lafayette College Easton, PA 31% $34,433 1350-1500 See record
86 Landmark College Putney, VT 49% $56,954 - See record
87 Macalester College Saint Paul, MN 29% $32,149 1350-1510 See record
88 Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 42% $37,607 1310-1460 See record
89 Fordham University Bronx, NY 59% $44,338 1320-1480 See record
90 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4.5% $20,111 1520-1580 See record
91 Hobart William Smith Colleges Geneva, NY 64% $31,563 1190-1385 See record
92 Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, NY 62% $41,437 1240-1430 See record
93 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 63% $36,228 1375-1510 See record
94 Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 48% $50,062 1350-1490 See record
95 St Lawrence University Canton, NY 54% $28,651 1255-1420 See record
96 Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA 39% $31,490 1270-1460 See record
97 Webb Institute Glen Cove, NY 14.0% $73,043 1430-1530 See record
98 Denison University Granville, OH 17.4% $40,007 1320-1490 See record
99 Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 18.7% $50,507 1396-1530 See record
100 The New England Conservatory of Music Boston, MA 41% $46,754 - See record