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America’s Most expensive college costs $58,334 per year.
- Total cost for 4 years = $240,000 (approximate)
And, there are 1,670 students (1,3287 undergraduate) paying so much money to attend America’s Most Expensive College.
Forbes recently published America’s Most Expensive colleges.
Sarah Lawrence College tops the list of Most Expensive Colleges for 2 years in row,
Rankings Methodology
- Basic data for college cost was calculate based on National Center for Education Statistics.
- Plus other fees like books, transportation were added to compute the list.
Why Books Matters?
Students from India and other countries have access to low-cost edition of the books. But, same book in USA would be cost more, much more. That adds up to total college cost.
Now you may wonder, how students are able to pay $240,000.
Most colleges operate a very efficient system of price discrimination, offering “grants” and “scholarships” to better match tuition to what parents can actually afford to pay. At Sarah Lawrence, 64% of students get some sort of grant, with the average amount $29,500.
Lets looks at America’s Most Expensive colleges for 2011/2012.
See the pages below for total tuition cost, financial aid derails with rankings list.
I fully agree with comment. In job market it matter little where form you have done your phD or MBA but your actual role as strategic manager to run the company in a profitable scale from your costly education.
as i have found that Sarah Lawrence College is not taking into account the SAT scores for variety of reasons it is likely that this college is not taken into consideration for ranking purpose
though this college provides public accountability.
overall i found this college structure quite integring for its ono to one method of teaching.
one more fact i would like to table that MIT,USA doesn’t consider GRE scores for its computer science post graduate courses.
Is thre any benefit in paying much???
I don’t understand, why are they so costly? I mean even their academic rankings are not good or are they good in focused research areas?
i only saw 3-4 good universities in the list. Are they for rich and spoiled kids?
You know, that is marketing. People usually think if they pay more – they get better education and better job after graduating. But all what they actually get is higher self esteem… That’s all…