The most Expensive universities in America

PBA 100 Expensive American Colleges and Universities

This list of the most expensive tier one 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 ranking information available from PBA, the times and USnews, it is easy to gauge which universities offer good value for money despite their expense.

Rank	Fees	University Name	PBA American Rank
1	$39,326	Columbia University	8
2	$38,844	Carnegie Mellon University	17
3	$38,840	Tufts University	43
4	$38,664	Tulane University	65
5	$38,530	George Washington University	62
6	$38,122	Georgetown University	46
7	$37,990	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	56
8	$37,950	Boston College	76
9	$37,740	University of Southern California	30
10	$37,718	Brown University	18
11	$37,700	Johns Hopkins University	13
12	$37,632	University of Chicago	7
13	$37,550	Lehigh University	77
14	$37,526	University of Pennsylvania	9
15	$37,525	Duke University	11
16	$37,372	New York University	21
17	$37,294	Brandeis University	54
18	$37,250	University of Rochester	34
19	$37,248	Washington University in St. Louis	24
20	$37,125	Northwestern University	14
21	$37,050	Boston University	40
22	$37,005	Vanderbilt University	22
23	$36,975	Wake Forest University	52
24	$36,915	Dartmouth College	26
25	$36,847	University of Notre Dame	49
26	$36,770	Pepperdine University	87
27	$36,504	Cornell University	10
28	$36,390	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	98
29	$36,390	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3
30	$36,336	Emory University	29
31	$36,300	Stevens Institute of Technology	106
32	$36,173	Harvard University	1
33	$36,030	Stanford University	6
34	$35,300	Yale University	3
35	$34,834	University of Miami	56
36	$34,831	Fordham University	91
37	$34,437	California Institute of Technology	5
38	$34,290	Princeton University	2
39	$34,264	University of San Diego	106
40	$34,252	Case Western Reserve University	37
41	$34,220	Clark University	104
42	$33,969	Northeastern University	113
43	$33,810	University of Denver	114
44	$33,500	University of San Francisco	131
45	$33,439	Syracuse University	72
46	$33,283	American University	106
47	$33,170	Southern Methodist University	89
48	$32,401	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	16
49	$32,094	Yeshiva University	68
50	$31,010	Clarkson University	130

The rankings shown in these tables reflect the PBA data available for American colleges only.

Rank	Fees	University Name	PBA American University Rank
51	$30,730	University of the Pacific	119
52	$30,728	St. Louis University	91
53	$30,670	Catholic University of America	128
54	$30,440	Drexel University	89
55	$3,840	Brigham Young University, Provo	115
56	$29,682	University of Vermont	86
57	$29,600	University of Virginia	35
58	$29,540	University of California, Berkeley	11
59	$29,486	Loyola University Chicago	122
60	$29,326	College of William and Mary	69
61	$29,181	University of California, Santa Barbara	53
62	$28,996	Rice University	28
63	$28,932	University of California, San Diego	18
64	$28,894	University of California, Santa Cruz	71
65	$28,656	University of California, Davis	33
66	$28,454	University of California, Riverside	73
67	$28,128	Marquette University	101
68	$27,513	Illinois Institute of Technology	119
69	$27,330	University of Dayton	122
70	$27,176	University of California, Irvine	39
71	$26,948	Texas Christian University	126
72	$26,234	Baylor University	99
73	$26,134	Michigan State University	55
74	$26,102	University of California, Los Angeles	15
75	$25,824	Miami University, Oxford	95
76	$25,722	University of Texas, Austin	27
77	$25,475	Duquesne University	132
78	$25,334	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	24
79	$25,248	Colorado School of Mines	104
80	$25,236	University of New Hampshire	115
81	$24,940	>Pennsylvania State University, University Park	31
82	$24,936	University of Colorado, Boulder	48
83	$24,769	Indiana University, Bloomington	58
84	$24,050	University of Connecticut	67
85	$23,940	University of Tulsa	106
86	$23,401	Clemson University	81
87	$23,290	University of Pittsburgh	38
88	$23,224	Purdue University, West Lafayette	44
89	$23,219	University of Washington	23
90	$23,076	University of Maryland, College Park	31
91	$22,966	Michigan Technological University	126
92	$22,908	University of South Carolina, Columbia	95
93	$22,342	University of Georgia	61
94	$22,294	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	35
95	$21,918	Ohio State University, Columbus	47
96	$21,842	New Jersey Institute of Technology	122
97	$21,818	University of Wisconsin, Madison	20
98	$21,590	Colorado State University	97
99	$21,488	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	50
100	$21,400	University of Florida	41

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