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.
| Rank | Institution | Tuition and fees | Room and board | Total |
| 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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