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The Most Expensive Places to Go

Filed in archive Money by Greg Cruey on November 28, 2007

Campus Grotto has a story online atthe moment that looks at the most expensive colleges and universities in America. The winner? george washingtonlinks University, and at over $39K a year for tuition alone. That's more than five times the national median for college tuition.

GW is also the most expensive school when you factor in the all other costs (like room and board). John Hopkins, Brown and NYU are all just behind GW on the "total costs" list.

George Washington University - America's Most Expensive College


Campus Grottoes article makes some interesting points about the relationship between cost and quality. They also point out that while the costs may be outragous when take at face value, the high cost schools often also have lots of financial aid resources. They can afford to give the students they want large institutional scholarships out of the university's foundation. That means that you can't really look at a school's student budget and decide that, well, you'll never be able to afford that until after you've been accepted and gotten a financial aid offer...


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