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Most-Expensive 4-Year Private Nonprofit Institutions, 2018-19

Almanac 2019
August 18, 2019

More than half of the 100 colleges that had the greatest overall cost for tuition, fees, and room and board were in three states: New York, which had 22 colleges on the list; Massachusetts, with 18; and Pennsylvania, with 13. Find tuition data going back to 1998-99 in our interactive database.

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More than half of the 100 colleges that had the greatest overall cost for tuition, fees, and room and board were in three states: New York, which had 22 colleges on the list; Massachusetts, with 18; and Pennsylvania, with 13. Find tuition data going back to 1998-99 in our interactive database.

RankInstitutionTuition and feesRoom and boardTotal
1. Harvey Mudd College $56,876 $18,127 $75,003
2. U. of Chicago $58,230 $16,350 $74,580
3. Columbia U. $59,985 $14,016 $74,001
4. Barnard College $55,032 $17,225 $72,257
5. Scripps College $55,024 $16,932 $71,956
6. Columbia U. School of General Studies $57,549 $14,190 $71,739
7. Trinity College (Conn.) $56,910 $14,750 $71,660
8. U. of Southern California $56,225 $15,395 $71,620
9. Oberlin College $55,054 $16,338 $71,392
10. Southern Methodist U. $54,493 $16,845 $71,338
11. Sarah Lawrence College $55,900 $15,370 $71,270
12. Dartmouth College $55,453 $15,756 $71,209
13. U. of Pennsylvania $55,584 $15,616 $71,200
14. Northwestern U. $54,567 $16,626 $71,193
15. Amherst College $56,426 $14,740 $71,166
16. Claremont McKenna College $54,405 $16,705 $71,110
17. Haverford College $54,592 $16,402 $70,994
18. School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts $56,382 $14,560 $70,942
18. Tufts U. $56,382 $14,560 $70,942
20. Pitzer College $54,056 $16,844 $70,900
21. Duke U. $55,695 $15,178 $70,873
22. Brandeis U. $55,395 $15,440 $70,835
23. Franklin & Marshall College $56,750 $14,050 $70,800
24. Fordham U. $52,687 $17,969 $70,656
25. Bard College at Simon’s Rock $55,732 $14,916 $70,648
26. Georgetown U. $54,104 $16,509 $70,613
27. Reed College $56,340 $14,210 $70,550
28. Vassar College $56,960 $13,550 $70,510
29. Eastman School of Music of the U. of Rochester $54,584 $15,862 $70,446
30. Brown U. $55,656 $14,670 $70,326
31. Wellesley College $53,732 $16,468 $70,200
32. Occidental College $54,686 $15,496 $70,182
33. Bard College $54,680 $15,488 $70,168
34. Johns Hopkins U. $54,240 $15,836 $70,076
35. Hobart and William Smith Colleges $55,255 $14,785 $70,040
36. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering $53,736 $16,300 $70,036
37. Tulane U. $54,820 $15,190 $70,010
38. Cornell U. $55,188 $14,816 $70,004
39. New York U. $51,828 $18,156 $69,984
40. Middlebury College $54,450 $15,530 $69,980
41. Wesleyan U. (Conn.) $54,914 $15,060 $69,974
42. Bennington College $54,360 $15,610 $69,970
42. Connecticut College $54,820 $15,150 $69,970
44. Williams College $55,450 $14,500 $69,950
45. Boston College $55,464 $14,478 $69,942
46. Smith College $52,404 $17,520 $69,924
47. Carnegie Mellon U. $55,465 $14,418 $69,883
48. Colgate U. $55,870 $13,995 $69,865
49. U. of Rochester $53,926 $15,938 $69,864
50. Washington U. in St. Louis $53,399 $16,440 $69,839
51. Bucknell U. $56,092 $13,662 $69,754
52. Boston U. $53,948 $15,720 $69,668
53. Pomona College $52,780 $16,716 $69,496
54. Yale U. $53,430 $16,000 $69,430
55. Colby College $55,210 $14,190 $69,400
56. Wake Forest U. $53,322 $16,032 $69,354
57. Pepperdine U. $53,932 $15,320 $69,252
58. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute $53,880 $15,260 $69,140
59. George Washington U. $55,230 $13,850 $69,080
60. Bates College $53,794 $15,224 $69,018
61. St. Lawrence U. $54,846 $14,134 $68,980
62. Skidmore College $54,420 $14,494 $68,914
63. Bryn Mawr College $52,360 $16,500 $68,860
64. Union College (N.Y.) $55,290 $13,563 $68,853
65. Carleton College $54,759 $14,085 $68,844
66. U. of Notre Dame $53,391 $15,410 $68,801
67. Bowdoin College $53,922 $14,698 $68,620
68. Chapman U. $52,724 $15,828 $68,552
69. Lafayette College $52,880 $15,640 $68,520
70. Hamilton College $54,620 $13,870 $68,490
71. Kenyon College $55,930 $12,510 $68,440
72. Dickinson College $54,661 $13,698 $68,359
73. Northeastern U. $51,387 $16,880 $68,267
74. Swarthmore College $52,588 $15,474 $68,062
75. Colorado College $55,470 $12,512 $67,982
76. California Institute of Technology $52,362 $15,525 $67,887
77. Parsons School of Design at the New School $49,847 $18,000 $67,847
78. Harvard College $50,420 $17,160 $67,580
79. Gettysburg College $54,480 $13,010 $67,490
80. Stevens Institute of Technology $52,202 $15,244 $67,446
81. Babson College $51,104 $16,312 $67,416
82. Syracuse U. $51,853 $15,550 $67,403
83. Drexel U. $53,279 $14,079 $67,358
84. Massachusetts Institute of Technology $51,832 $15,510 $67,342
85. Villanova U. $53,308 $14,020 $67,328
86. College of the Holy Cross $52,770 $14,520 $67,290
87. Stanford U. $51,354 $15,763 $67,117
88. Santa Clara U. $51,711 $14,910 $66,621
89. Lehigh U. $52,930 $13,600 $66,530
90. Macalester College $54,344 $12,156 $66,500
91. Washington and Lee U. $52,455 $13,925 $66,380
92. St. John’s College (N.M.) $54,118 $12,148 $66,266
93. Bentley U. $49,880 $16,320 $66,200
94. Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School $48,191 $18,000 $66,191
94. New School College of Performing Arts $48,191 $18,000 $66,191
96. Vanderbilt U. $49,816 $16,234 $66,050
96. Wheaton College (Mass.) $52,626 $13,424 $66,050
98. Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins U. $50,180 $15,838 $66,018
99. St. John’s College (Md.) $53,218 $12,602 $65,820
100. Davidson College $51,447 $14,372 $65,819

Note: The figures represent charges to first-time, full-time undergraduates based, typically, on a nine-month academic year of 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours. The data do not reflect the lowered cost of attendance at an institution for some students after grants and other student aid are considered. Tuition and fees include required fees. Room-and-board fees charged by colleges may represent differing numbers of meals per week and so may not be comparable among institutions. Data are drawn from a College Board survey of more than 3,000 colleges. Tied institutions are listed alphabetically. More data on college pricing can be found here. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to Ruth Hammond.

Source: “Annual Survey of Colleges 2018,” © 2018, the College Board. This material may not be copied, published, rewritten, or redistributed without permission.


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