Choose a section »

Colleges That Charged $50,000 or More in 2011-12

In the past academic year, 123 institutions charged students $50,000 or more for tuition, fees, room, and board, up from 100 institutions the previous year. Many students paid less, however, because of financial aid.

Institution	2011-12	2010-11	1-year increase
Sarah Lawrence College	$59,170	$57,384	3.1%
Landmark College	$57,330	$56,500	1.5%
New York U.	$56,787	$54,750	3.7%
Columbia U. School of General Studies	$56,310	$53,874	4.5%
Harvey Mudd College	$56,268	$53,588	5.0%
Wesleyan U.	$56,006	$53,976	3.8%
Claremont McKenna College	$55,865	$53,230	5.0%
Johns Hopkins U.	$55,742	$53,690	3.8%
Berklee College of Music	$55,615	$51,335	8.3%
Bard College	$55,592	$53,480	3.9%
Barnard College	$55,566	$53,496	3.9%
Vanderbilt U.	$55,556	$52,990	4.8%
Trinity College	$55,450	$53,330	4.0%
U. of Chicago	$55,416	$53,244	4.1%
Dartmouth College	$55,365	$52,445	5.6%
Bates College	$55,300	$53,300	3.8%
Stevens Institute of Technology	$55,276	$52,965	4.4%
Vassar College	$55,135	$53,090	3.9%
Washington U. in St. Louis	$55,111	$53,315	3.4%
Boston College	$55,079	$52,624	4.7%
Haverford College	$55,050	$52,970	3.9%
Pitzer College	$54,988	$53,080	3.6%
Connecticut College	$54,970	$53,110	3.5%
Bard College at Simon's Rock	$54,960	$52,610	4.5%
Bennington College	$54,960	$52,900	3.9%
Occidental College	$54,950	$52,815	4.0%
Georgetown U.	$54,936	$53,591	2.5%
Carnegie Mellon U.	$54,922	$52,690	4.2%
Scripps College	$54,900	$52,900	3.8%
U. of Southern California	$54,896	$52,602	4.4%
Fordham U.	$54,893	$52,768	4.0%
Tulane U.	$54,884	$52,110	5.3%
Northwestern U.	$54,763	$52,463	4.4%
Oberlin College	$54,760	$52,587	4.1%
Cornell U.	$54,695	$52,316	4.5%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	$54,679	$52,145	4.9%
Eastman School of Music of University of Rochester	$54,621	$52,372	4.3%
New School Parsons School of Design	$54,610	$52,870	3.3%
Williams College	$54,560	$52,340	4.2%
Tufts U.	$54,474	$52,866	3.0%
George Washington U.	$54,473	$53,025	2.7%
Bowdoin College	$54,470	$52,880	3.0%
Union College (N.Y.)	$54,273	$52,329	3.7%
Bucknell U.	$54,240	$52,280	3.7%
Carleton College	$54,180	$52,110	4.0%
Boston Conservatory	$54,160	$51,985	4.2%
Boston U.	$54,130	$52,124	3.8%
Franklin & Marshall College	$54,110	$52,110	3.8%
Amherst College	$54,098	$51,520	5.0%
Hampshire College	$54,060	$52,202	3.6%
St. John's College (Md.)	$53,990	$52,176	3.5%
St. John's College (N.M.)	$53,990	$52,176	3.5%
U. of Pennsylvania	$53,976	$51,944	3.9%
Brandeis U.	$53,954	$51,488	4.8%
U. of Rochester	$53,922	$51,922	3.9%
Duke U.	$53,905	$51,865	3.9%
Dickinson College	$53,885	$51,975	3.7%
Columbia U.	$53,853	$51,677	4.2%
Reed College	$53,850	$51,850	3.9%
Middlebury College	$53,800	$52,500	2.5%
Colby College	$53,800	$51,990	3.5%
Hobart and William Smith Colleges	$53,767	$52,168	3.1%
St. Lawrence U.	$53,740	$51,770	3.8%
Babson College	$53,730	$51,916	3.5%
Lafayette College	$53,720	$51,774	3.8%
Bryn Mawr College	$53,714	$51,780	3.7%
Skidmore College	$53,684	$52,170	2.9%
Mount Holyoke College	$53,596	$52,036	3.0%
Colgate U.	$53,570	$52,060	2.9%
Hamilton College (N.Y.)	$53,470	$51,760	3.3%
Smith College	$53,460	$51,898	3.0%
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	$53,450	$51,925	2.9%
Fairfield U.	$53,260	$51,430	3.6%
Swarthmore College	$53,250	$51,500	3.4%
Wellesley College	$53,250	$51,950	2.5%
Chapman U.	$53,191	$51,481	3.3%
Brown U.	$53,136	$51,360	3.5%
Providence College	$53,115	$51,125	3.9%
Pomona College	$53,110	$51,330	3.5%
New School	$53,070	$51,350	3.3%
Wake Forest U.	$52,986	$50,980	3.9%
U. of Notre Dame	$52,805	$50,785	4.0%
Emory U.	$52,792	$50,356	4.8%
Gettysburg College	$52,790	$51,390	2.7%
College of the Holy Cross	$52,758	$50,832	3.8%
Yale U.	$52,700	$49,800	5.8%
Harvard U.	$52,650	$50,724	3.8%
Kenyon College	$52,650	$50,400	4.5%
Southern Methodist U.	$52,645	$49,965	5.4%
Washington and Lee U.	$52,614	$50,630	3.9%
Pepperdine U.	$52,596	$50,470	4.2%
Wheaton College (Mass.)	$52,564	$51,264	2.5%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$52,507	$50,446	4.1%
Loyola U. Maryland	$52,485	$50,000	5.0%
Drew U.	$52,454	$50,647	3.6%
U. of Richmond	$52,420	$50,420	4.0%
Stanford U.	$52,341	$50,576	3.5%
Villanova U.	$52,200	$50,550	3.3%
New School Mannes College of Music	$52,040	$50,360	3.3%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$51,964	$50,240	3.4%
Ursinus College	$51,950	$49,700	4.5%
Dominican U. of California	$51,810	$49,100	5.5%
Lehigh U.	$51,800	$50,300	3.0%
American U.	$51,719	$50,165	3.1%
Northeastern U.	$51,472	$49,552	3.9%
Cleveland Institute of Music	$51,445	$50,005	2.9%
Rhode Island School of Design	$51,429	$49,605	3.7%
Macalester College	$51,417	$49,124	4.7%
U. of Miami	$51,182	$48,898	4.7%
Case Western Reserve U.	$51,058	$49,048	4.1%
Santa Clara U.	$51,045	$49,110	3.9%
Syracuse U.	$50,921	$49,152	3.6%
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	$50,902	$48,693	4.5%
Loyola Marymount U.	$50,850	$49,189	3.4%
Bentley U.	$50,848	$49,238	3.3%
Whitman College	$50,656	$48,490	4.5%
Mills College	$50,570	$48,529	4.2%
West Coast U.	$50,453	$50,453	0.0%
Colorado College	$50,450	$48,898	3.2%
Rollins College	$50,400	$49,400	2.0%
U. of San Diego	$50,334	$48,980	2.8%
Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins U.	$50,325	$48,425	3.9%
Denison U.	$50,160	$47,800	4.9%

* Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's 2010-11 total for tuition, fees, room, and board was revised on October 27, 2010, to reflect a change made by the College Board.

Source: The College Board collected the figures for 2010-11 in its "Annual Survey of Colleges 2011." © 2011, the College Board. This material may not be copied, published, rewritten, or redistributed without permission.