U.S. Out of State Tuition Ranking

The highest priced four year colleges in America are listed by one year's out of state tuition list price for the 2017/2018 school year.

What is the most expensive college in America? Leading the colleges list is Columbia University in the City of New York in New York with an out of state tuition of $54,504.

Rating is a CollegeCalc proprietary national percentile ranking of a college's overall difficulty and educational effectiveness. An average score is 50. Dollar value is a measure of a school's academic rating compared with the average net price paid. Colleges which are ranked "n/a" didn't report sufficient data to formulate a score. Learn more about our rating methodology.

All price data are reprinted from the U.S. Department of Education's 2017-2018 IPEDS Survey and reflect reported costs for the 2017-2018 academic year.

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America's Most Expensive Colleges by Out of State Tuition

Out of State Tuition	College	Rating	$Value
$54,504 Out of State Tuition	1) Columbia University in the City of New York New York, Private Not-For-Profit	98	78
$54,410 Out of State Tuition	2) Vassar College New York, Private Not-For-Profit	96	79
$54,347 Out of State Tuition	3) Harvey Mudd College California, Private Not-For-Profit	97	65
$54,280 Out of State Tuition	4) Franklin and Marshall College Pennsylvania, Private Not-For-Profit	-	-
$53,900 Out of State Tuition	5) Reed College Oregon, Private Not-For-Profit	94	80
$53,692 Out of State Tuition	6) Bucknell University Pennsylvania, Private Not-For-Profit	94	64
$53,650 Out of State Tuition	7) Colgate University New York, Private Not-For-Profit	96	77
$53,448 Out of State Tuition	8) University of Southern California California, Private Not-For-Profit	97	67
$53,435 Out of State Tuition	9) George Washington University District Of Columbia, Private Not-For-Profit	92	64
$53,430 Out of State Tuition	10) Amherst College Massachusetts, Private Not-For-Profit	98	85
$53,292 Out of State Tuition	11) University of Chicago Illinois, Private Not-For-Profit	99	65
$53,240 Out of State Tuition	12) Williams College Massachusetts, Private Not-For-Profit	97	79
$53,152 Out of State Tuition	13) Tufts University Massachusetts, Private Not-For-Profit	97	73
$53,019 Out of State Tuition	14) Union College New York, Private Not-For-Profit	-	-
$52,762 Out of State Tuition	15) Oberlin College Ohio, Private Not-For-Profit	95	59
$52,748 Out of State Tuition	16) Scripps College California, Private Not-For-Profit	-	-
$52,732 Out of State Tuition	17) Carnegie Mellon University Pennsylvania, Private Not-For-Profit	96	65
$52,640 Out of State Tuition	18) Gettysburg College Pennsylvania, Private Not-For-Profit	-	-
$52,612 Out of State Tuition	19) Cornell University New York, Private Not-For-Profit	98	70
$52,610 Out of State Tuition	20) St Lawrence University New York, Private Not-For-Profit	-	-

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