PBA 100 Cheapest American Colleges and Universities
This list of the Cheapest colleges and universities in America was created by taking the ranking positions of institutions listed in the PBA top American Universities list and ranking them by the fees that they charge to non-state students. By leaving national ranks available from PBA, the times and USnews, it is easy to gauge which universities offer the best value for money.
Rank |
Fees |
University Name |
|
1 |
$3,840 |
Brigham Young University | 115 |
2 |
$11,396 |
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 106 |
3 |
$12,018 |
SUNY, Stony Brook | 85 |
4 |
$12,330 |
SUNY, Binghamton | 103 |
5 |
$12,538 |
University at Buffalo, SUNY | 112 |
6 |
$13,229 |
University of Oklahoma | 111 |
7 |
$13,800 |
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge | 115 |
8 |
$14,634 |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 44 |
9 |
$14,685 |
Howard University | 115 |
10 |
$15,278 |
University of Arkansas | 121 |
11 |
$15,884 |
University of Kentucky | 100 |
12 |
$16,274 |
Texas A&M University, College Station | 51 |
13 |
$16,796 |
University of Utah | 84 |
14 |
$16,931 |
Kansas State University | 125 |
15 |
$17,106 |
University of Nebraska, Lincoln | 81 |
16 |
$17,119 |
University of Kansas | 80 |
17 |
$17,350 |
Iowa State University | 75 |
18 |
$17,584 |
North Carolina State University, Raleigh | 64 |
19 |
$17,691 |
Ohio University | 128 |
20 |
$17,916 |
Florida State University | 78 |
21 |
$17,949 |
Arizona State University | 79 |
22 |
$18,000 |
University of Alabama | 74 |
23 |
$18,260 |
Auburn University | 101 |
24 |
$18,450 |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst | 66 |
25 |
$18,601 |
Washington State University | 93 |
26 |
$18,676 |
University of Arizona | 60 |
27 |
$18,728 |
University of Tennessee | 83 |
28 |
$19,300 |
Samford University | 132 |
29 |
$19,428 |
University of Oregon | 94 |
30 |
$19,514 |
University of Missouri, Columbia | 88 |
31 |
$19,605 |
Virginia Tech | 63 |
32 |
$20,658 |
University of Iowa | 59 |
33 |
$21,126 |
University of Delaware | 70 |
34 |
$21,386 |
Georgia Institute of Technology | 40 |
35 |
$21,400 |
University of Florida | 41 |
36 |
$21,488 |
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | 50 |
37 |
$21,590 |
Colorado State University | 97 |
38 |
$21,818 |
University of Wisconsin, Madison | 20 |
39 |
$21,842 |
New Jersey Institute of Technology | 122 |
40 |
$21,918 |
Ohio State University, Columbus | 47 |
41 |
$22,294 |
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 35 |
42 |
$22,342 |
University of Georgia | 61 |
43 |
$22,908 |
University of South Carolina, Columbia | 95 |
44 |
$22,966 |
Michigan Technological University | 126 |
45 |
$23,076 |
University of Maryland, College Park | 31 |
46 |
$23,219 |
University of Washington | 23 |
47 |
$23,224 |
Purdue University, West Lafayette | 44 |
48 |
$23,290 |
University of Pittsburgh | 38 |
49 |
$23,401 |
Clemson University | 81 |
50 |
$23,940 |
University of Tulsa | 106 |
The data shown in these tables reflects American colleges only.
Rank |
Fees |
University Name |
PBA American Rank |
51 |
$24,050 |
University of Connecticut | 67 |
52 |
$24,769 |
Indiana University, Bloomington | 58 |
53 |
$24,936 |
University of Colorado, Boulder | 48 |
54 |
$24,940 |
Pennsylvania State University, University Park | 31 |
55 |
$25,236 |
University of New Hampshire | 115 |
56 |
$25,248 |
Colorado School of Mines | 104 |
57 |
$25,334 |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 24 |
58 |
$25,475 |
Duquesne University | 132 |
59 |
$25,722 |
University of Texas, Austin | 27 |
60 |
$25,824 |
Miami University, Oxford | 95 |
61 |
$26,102 |
University of California, Los Angeles | 15 |
62 |
$26,134 |
Michigan State University | 55 |
63 |
$26,234 |
Baylor University | 99 |
64 |
$26,948 |
Texas Christian University | 126 |
65 |
$27,176 |
University of California, Irvine | 39 |
66 |
$27,330 |
University of Dayton | 122 |
67 |
$27,513 |
Illinois Institute of Technology | 119 |
68 |
$28,128 |
Marquette University | 101 |
69 |
$28,454 |
University of California, Riverside | 73 |
70 |
$28,656 |
University of California, Davis | 33 |
71 |
$28,894 |
University of California, Santa Cruz | 71 |
72 |
$28,932 |
University of California, San Diego | 18 |
73 |
$28,996 |
Rice University | 28 |
74 |
$29,181 |
University of California, Santa Barbara | 53 |
75 |
$29,326 |
College of William and Mary | 69 |
76 |
$29,486 |
Loyola University Chicago | 122 |
77 |
$29,540 |
University of California, Berkeley | 11 |
78 |
$29,600 |
University of Virginia | 35 |
79 |
$29,682 |
University of Vermont | 86 |
80 |
$30,440 |
Drexel University | 89 |
81 |
$30,670 |
Catholic University of America | 128 |
82 |
$30,728 |
St. Louis University | 91 |
83 |
$30,730 |
University of the Pacific | 119 |
84 |
$31,010 |
Clarkson University | 130 |
85 |
$32,094 |
Yeshiva University | 68 |
86 |
$32,401 |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 16 |
87 |
$33,170 |
Southern Methodist University | 89 |
88 |
$33,283 |
American University | 106 |
89 |
$33,439 |
Syracuse University | 72 |
90 |
$33,500 |
University of San Francisco | 131 |
91 |
$33,810 |
University of Denver | 114 |
92 |
$33,969 |
Northeastern University | 113 |
93 |
$34,220 |
Clark University | 104 |
94 |
$34,252 |
Case Western Reserve University | 37 |
95 |
$34,264 |
University of San Diego | 106 |
96 |
$34,290 |
Princeton University | 2 |
97 |
$34,437 |
California Institute of Technology | 5 |
98 |
$34,831 |
Fordham University | 91 |
99 |
$34,834 |
University of Miami | 56 |
100 |
$35,300 |
Yale University | 3 |
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