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- Skurt, on 11/01/2009, -0/+122Damn site makes you navigate 11 pages!
1. Sarah Lawrence College
School President Karen Lawrence teaches a seminar called "Who's Afraid of James Joyce?"
Bronxville, N.Y.
Total cost (2009-2010): $55,788
Total cost (2008-2009): $54,066
Increase: 3.2%
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2. Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
Total cost (2009-2010): $52,161
Total cost (2008-2009): $50,700
Increase: 2.9%
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3. New York University
New York, N.Y.
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,993
Total cost (2008-2009): $50,282
Increase: 3.4%
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4. George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,775
Total cost (2008-2009): $50,537
Increase: 2.8%
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5. Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Md.
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,690
Total cost (2008-2009): $49,778
Increase: 3.8%
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6. Columbia University
New York, N.Y.
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,544
Total cost (2008-2009): $49,306
Increase: 4.5%
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7. Wesleyan University
Middletown, Conn.
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,432
Total cost (2008-2009): $49,570
Increase: 3.8%
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8. Trinity College
Hartford, Conn.
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,400
Total cost (2008-2009): $48,624
Increase: 5.7%
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9. Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Mo.
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,329
Total cost (2008-2009): $48,884
Increase: 5%
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10 (tie). Bates College*
Lewiston, Maine
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,300
Total cost (2008-2009): $49,350
Increase: 4%
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10 (tie). Vassar College*
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Total cost (2009-2010): $51,300
Total cost (2008-2009): $49,250
Increase: 4.2% - cbergstrom, on 11/01/2009, -0/+37*starts a campaign against the use of the word "ever" at the end of Digg article titles*
- catachip, on 11/01/2009, -0/+22Homer: Don't worry, honey. We can't afford this now, but when it's time, I promise my darling daughter can go to the finest school there is! ...in South Carolina.
Lisa: OH! I will not be a Gamecock! - supersonicjim, on 11/01/2009, -1/+22I dare say some of the first colleges ever would have been more expensive.
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EVER - CptBuck, on 11/01/2009, -0/+19Ever? Did they go back and calculate, for inflation, the cost of the Lyceum?
- monodelasno, on 11/01/2009, -0/+18Because miscellaneous expenses is rather ambiguous?
- inactive, on 11/01/2009, -0/+17Lisa: Oh, if I fail I won't even be able to get into Vassar.
Homer: I've had just about enough of your Vassar-bashing, young lady - Matrixsta, on 10/31/2009, -0/+12I am questioning the accuracy of this article. NYU is the 2nd most expensive college in the nation.
The numbers are by total cost, which includes tuition, fees, room and board.
So NYU is
$38,765 (Tuition) + $500 (fees) + $13,226 (Room and Board) = $52,491 Total Cost
http://www.nyu.edu/financial.aid/tuitiongeneral.ht ...
The total cost makes NYU the 2nd most expensive. It's own college newspaper even agrees:
http://nyunews.com/news/2009/oct/28/tuition/ - chessoriginal, on 11/01/2009, -0/+10*sigh* sometimes the level of education just does not justify the cost. Paying that much to sit in a class with 200 other kids is not my idea of a good education. I'm at a school which is under 10k for in state residents and the class sizes are generally under 20...not to mention the state-of-the-art equipment in every room and a state-of-the-art library with unlimited printing...
- Midtowner, on 11/01/2009, -2/+12Hooray for anti-intellectualism.
The entire point of these leftist lectures which you might find objectionable is not indoctrination. It's challenging preconceived notions and getting people to to think for themselves instead of simply accepting what they were taught by their parents at face value. This is a good thing. We want our future leaders and middle managers to be able to think for themselves and be able to reorder the things they value as situations change.
Yes, there are some Ward Churchills out there who actually do think their mission is indoctrination, but really, if you've ever been around a university atmosphere, such douchebaggery tends to alienate students more than it brings them into the fold.
Bottom line -- if educated folks don't think the way you think, maybe your way of thinking is dumb. - fajitamelt, on 11/01/2009, -1/+8LOL, the costs of those schools are the cost of #10 on this list minus 2 bucks.
- arthursk, on 11/01/2009, -1/+7I swear, it's like everyone on digg just learned the meaning of ambiguity.
I've never seen the word used so much in the last two months... or am I crazy. - Renian, on 11/01/2009, -1/+7And just saying "total cost" in the article isn't?
- Ramble, on 11/01/2009, -0/+5Wow. It's pretty bad in the UK but it's not that bad.
- Joest23, on 11/01/2009, -2/+7Good thing I'm going to go to SUNY at Oneonta. $5,000-$14,000 a year including the dorm. That isn't /cheap/, but it's much cheaper than most other schools. If it weren't for SUNY's cheap in-state tuition, I don't think I'd be able to afford going to college.
- javakah, on 11/01/2009, -0/+5The thing to realize is that the prices listed do not necessarily reflect what the average student actually pays.
There is somewhat of a view that the price reflects quality and in order to seem 'elite' you have to appear to cost a lot. So if such a university sees that it's 'peer institutions' are raising their tuition and fees, the university will do the same in order to not appear less 'elite'. The catch though is that since they aren't necessarily raising the prices for financial reasons, what they do instead (in order to not price a ridiculous number of students out) is give out more 'financial aid'. So you wind up only having 10-15% of students actually paying the sticker price. - TBBucs, on 11/01/2009, -0/+5The thing is, most of these schools hand out massive endowments to some students (like 30-40k range), cutting the cost down to your average state school or close to it. Even if you don't get that much, something like 85 percent of students get some sort of non-loan aid from the school.
- johnnick, on 11/01/2009, -0/+5However, only one of the listed schools (Columbia) is in the US News top 10 universities, and 3-4 others are in the top 25.
- inactive, on 11/01/2009, -0/+4Hitler or Stalin never went to college and look where it got them!
Er wait... - junkwheel, on 11/01/2009, -4/+8The government is entirely responsible for rising costs of education. They should be coming down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIcfMMVcYZg
And the mere fact that all tax payers - no matter how poor - contribute to peoples higher education, when they can't afford it for themselves, is truly ridiculous. The government can't run a mail system, let alone a school system. - optigon, on 11/01/2009, -0/+4But expertise is not.
I would rather have a surgeon that spent the time, money, and effort in going to Johns Hopkins than I would someone who thinks "knowledge is free" and looks up how to perform my surgery on Wikipedia. Guided knowledge is important and those that supply it deserve compensation. - Midtowner, on 11/01/2009, -2/+5Have any of us ever heard of your school?
-- that's the difference. - Howitzer86, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3It's better than ending it with "of all time! Of all time!"
- theghoul, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3No Harvard, Yale or Stanford? Cool.
Gonna apply as soon as I take the GMAT. - root45, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3Yeah, this list is pretty subjective. I can find plenty of schools which self admittedly have higher costs than some or all of these schools.
UChicago, for example, lists the costs for most students as $54,340 this year. Even taking an average over all the possible student types, the total is still higher than some schools on the list.
http://collegeaid.uchicago.edu/cost.shtml
Then again, the data were collected by the College Board, so I guess there's not a lot to trust in the first place. - prettychristy, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3People who would need to take out massive student loans to attend one of those pricey colleges should really consider opting for something less expensive depending on his/her major. If a person wants to major in law, and gets accepted into Harvard, then go for it. Yet, if someone wants to major in accounting, and gets accepted into NYU's Stern School of Business (great business program) should really consider looking into less expensive schools, such as Baruch, because the Big Four and large Mid-Size firms recruit from Baruch no differently than from Stern's School of Business.
Attending college is a major investment, and it's important to perform a due diligence
- monodelasno, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3Artursk: Your observation seems rather vague and lacking in clarity.
- ace429k, on 11/01/2009, -0/+3President Odouche? That the best you got?
- Fengpost, on 11/01/2009, -1/+3So, does the future salary of the students of these colleges justifies the tuition? That is the real question.
- HtomSirveaux, on 11/01/2009, -1/+3Depending what you do after high school, you can never be out of work for more than a few months at most, or you can bounce around between dead end jobs for the rest of your life that hardly make you more than 30-40k a year if you are dedicated. Having a degree in anything ensures the former and will get you a job earning at least 40k in your mid twenties. You do learn a lot in college, tough. Mainly how to solve problems in groups and how to articulate complicated ideas in writing. That is what the piece of paper represents. On the other hand, being in debt blows. The other thing you a lot about in college is bureaucratic *****; meaning that you learn a lot about what not to do. Anyone that paid attention while earning their degree has a good shot at opening their own successful business regardless of their major.
- Renian, on 11/01/2009, -2/+4Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tuition $38,100
Fees $1,065
Room and Board $11,145
Miscellaneous Expenses $1,850
Total Cost $52,160
So why aren't they number 3? - bunit03057, on 11/01/2009, -2/+4Are you calling me a sucker for going to Bates? By the way I've never been in a class much bigger than 40, even in an intro class.
- iAMac, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2Forgot about Stevens Institute of Technology. Room and Board are $50,910 and there are even more fees after that.
- KingRubberDucky, on 11/01/2009, -1/+3Yeah its not as bad in the UK since the government caps tuition fee costs at something like £3000+inflation (or along those lines) so as long as that cap is in place, they'll never be as expensive as our US buddies!
They are talking about lifting the cap in the near future.....if that happens, expect Oxford and Cambridge to be very expensive! - supersonicjim, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2Werewolves don't go to college.
- HtomSirveaux, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2A degree isn't. You don't get credit for writing a thesis for your local library.
- HtomSirveaux, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2You do realize that the leftist school stereotype really only is true of liberal arts schools. Which should be expected. They are ***** artists. Just about all other places are fairly balanced depending on what classes you take.
You are just sounding crazy and paranoid like the bum in the alley screaming to himself. No one knows what the ***** you are talking about.
"► NONE of them believe in American exceptionalism.
► NONE of them believe freedom is the solution to the human condition."
What the ***** does that even mean? What unlikely anecdote did you extrapolate that cryptic ***** from? It just sounds like coded racism to me.
Calm down. No one will take you seriously or even listen to you if you act like a neo-con cleric.
And just to argue one of your many stupid points; government, the U.S.A., has classically gotten bigger under conservative administrations as opposed to liberal ones in the past 40 years. FDR was really the only "liberal" president to ever oversee a significant increase in the power of government only because the predominant economic theory at the time advocated so. Even then Eisenhower, Nixon, REAGAN, Bush, and Bush put him to shame with government spending. - V3NOM, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2Honestly a ton of good colleges are right around the $50k mark. University of Michigan is about $48k for out-of-state students. Luckily I'm in-state...
- Origin415, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2I dont think anyone seriously judges a university on its price tag. I've never heard of Sarah Lawrence before, and dont care about it just as much as I used to.
- bigwrestlerguy, on 11/01/2009, -0/+2You always see this nonsense about the most expensive colleges, but what about great cheap colleges or free ones?
- REALultpower, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2stanford has an awesome financial aid program. Only a small percentage of the student body pays full tuition. Don't know about yale or harvard, tho. Their endowments are bigger, but it's not the size that matters...
- Duncan3, on 11/01/2009, -0/+1Stanford lists $53,652 for 9 months. Not bad.
Massive debt = motivated employees. - charlietuna, on 11/01/2009, -0/+1I hated NYU when I went there, then they gave me a degree and suddenly I can only praise the place. I even went back for an MS. It's some form of Stockholm Syndrome I think.
- Ophie, on 11/01/2009, -0/+1And I was bitching about Cambridge being expensive.
- skinny01, on 11/01/2009, -1/+2Misc expenses is just an estimate, the real number will depend on the student. You can go and buy books from the college store and pay out the ass, or you can find them used and save money. Or just do what you know you will and just wait 2 weeks before the test, buy the book and crunch through in that time and return it after the test. Misc expenses is just their estimate of how much extra the kid may need to spend. A slacker could double that amount, a tightwad could almost eliminate it.
- oherror, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1yea they might be screwed if they cant find a job when they graduate. I have a friend that attended #2 and hes in trouble now cause of it.
- RLeviathen, on 11/01/2009, -1/+2This article makes me feel pretty lucky to be going to school in Canada where I only pay $8000 a year for tuition. Thank you government subsidization. Also, thankfully no republicans to call government subsidization communism.
- neoauteur, on 11/01/2009, -1/+2College degrees as showcase pieces.
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