Top 500 Ranked Universities for
Highest Total Cost of attendance
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| Rank |
School Name |
Total Cost of attendance |
| 1 |
Landmark College |
$53,775 |
| 2 |
George Washington University |
$53,110 |
| 3 |
The Art Institute of New York City |
$53,092 |
| 4 |
Sarah Lawrence College |
$52,210 |
| 5 |
Georgetown University |
$51,466 |
| 6 |
Yale University |
$50,350 |
| 7 |
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art |
$50,225 |
| 8 |
University of Chicago |
$49,976 |
| 9 |
Vanderbilt University |
$49,834 |
| 10 |
Washington University in St Louis |
$49,796 |
| 11 |
Northwestern University |
$49,779 |
| 12 |
Drew University |
$49,674 |
| 13 |
University of Southern California |
$49,489 |
| 14 |
Mills College |
$49,460 |
| 15 |
Pepperdine University |
$49,430 |
| 16 |
Bard College at Simon's Rock |
$49,385 |
| 17 |
The Art Institute of Charleston |
$49,380 |
| 18 |
Wesleyan University |
$49,346 |
| 19 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
$49,315 |
| 20 |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
$49,260 |
| 21 |
Stanford University |
$49,227 |
| 22 |
New York University |
$49,190 |
| 23 |
Barnard College |
$49,174 |
| 24 |
Bennington College |
$49,155 |
| 25 |
University of Pennsylvania |
$49,080 |
| 26 |
Skidmore College |
$49,000 |
| 27 |
Johns Hopkins University |
$48,992 |
| 28 |
Haverford College |
$48,932 |
| 29 |
Gibbs College |
$48,904 |
| 30 |
Boston University |
$48,900 |
| 31 |
Tufts University |
$48,900 |
| 32 |
Bard College |
$48,880 |
| 33 |
The Boston Conservatory |
$48,879 |
| 34 |
Colgate University |
$48,710 |
| 35 |
Brown University |
$48,660 |
| 36 |
Vassar College |
$48,565 |
| 37 |
Rhode Island School of Design |
$48,550 |
| 38 |
Harvard University |
$48,550 |
| 39 |
Claremont McKenna College |
$48,520 |
| 40 |
Babson College |
$48,450 |
| 41 |
Scripps College |
$48,450 |
| 42 |
The New School |
$48,406 |
| 43 |
Boston College |
$48,384 |
| 44 |
Pitzer College |
$48,374 |
| 45 |
Mount Holyoke College |
$48,360 |
| 46 |
Amherst College |
$48,352 |
| 47 |
Hobart William Smith Colleges |
$48,328 |
| 48 |
Trinity College |
$48,315 |
| 49 |
Bowdoin College |
$48,260 |
| 50 |
Dartmouth College |
$48,236 |
| 51 |
Swarthmore College |
$48,215 |
| 52 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
$48,200 |
| 53 |
Cornell University |
$48,151 |
| 54 |
University of Rochester |
$48,150 |
| 55 |
Santa Clara University |
$48,144 |
| 56 |
Fordham University |
$48,110 |
| 57 |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
$48,100 |
| 58 |
Oberlin College |
$48,070 |
| 59 |
Smith College |
$47,976 |
| 60 |
Duke University |
$47,975 |
| 61 |
Princeton University |
$47,975 |
| 62 |
Bucknell University |
$47,936 |
| 63 |
Hamilton College |
$47,900 |
| 64 |
Wellesley College |
$47,870 |
| 65 |
Berklee College of Music |
$47,856 |
| 66 |
California School of Culinary Arts |
$47,841 |
| 67 |
University of San Diego |
$47,838 |
| 68 |
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering |
$47,825 |
| 69 |
Harvey Mudd College |
$47,806 |
| 70 |
Chapman University |
$47,780 |
| 71 |
Reed College |
$47,730 |
| 72 |
Manhattan School of Music |
$47,725 |
| 73 |
Bryn Mawr College |
$47,674 |
| 74 |
Fairfield University |
$47,635 |
| 75 |
Pomona College |
$47,580 |
| 76 |
Occidental College |
$47,551 |
| 77 |
Stevens Institute of Technology |
$47,500 |
| 78 |
The Art Institute of Houston |
$47,500 |
| 79 |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
$47,440 |
| 80 |
School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston |
$47,390 |
| 81 |
Wheaton College |
$47,330 |
| 82 |
Brandeis University |
$47,310 |
| 83 |
Dickinson College |
$47,264 |
| 84 |
Franklin and Marshall College |
$47,254 |
| 85 |
Hampshire College |
$47,190 |
| 86 |
Villanova University |
$47,160 |
| 87 |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
$47,150 |
| 88 |
Williams College |
$47,140 |
| 89 |
St John's College |
$47,110 |
| 90 |
Tulane University of Louisiana |
$47,100 |
| 91 |
Washington and Lee University |
$47,096 |
| 92 |
Rollins College |
$46,971 |
| 93 |
Emory University |
$46,956 |
| 94 |
Carleton College |
$46,895 |
| 95 |
University of Richmond |
$46,850 |
| 96 |
California Institute of the Arts |
$46,838 |
| 97 |
University of Notre Dame |
$46,727 |
| 98 |
College of the Holy Cross |
$46,702 |
| 99 |
Kenyon College |
$46,690 |
| 100 |
Wake Forest University |
$46,680 |