Pennsylvania Average Net Price Ranking

The Most Expensive Colleges in Pennsylvania by Average Net Price for 2023

Most Expensive Colleges in Pennsylvania by Average Net Price

The highest net price colleges in Pennsylvania are ranked by the average net price paid. Net price is the average cost paid as determined by tuition minus scholarship and grant financial aid and grant financial aid and may be a more accurate estimation of real life costs than published tuition. Discount from list price represents the effective percent discount from published costs that students averaged. Please note that net price varies on a student by student basis based on finanical situation and no financial aid is guaranteed. The University of the Arts leads the list with a $40,269 average annual net price paid in 2014-2015.

Net price data are reprinted from the U.S. Department of Education's IPEDS Survey and reflect reported costs for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Pennsylvania's Most Expensive Colleges by Average Net Price
College Net Price Discount
#1 The University of the Arts

Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit

$40,269 40%
#2 Moore College of Art and Design

Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit

$40,141 39%
#3 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit

$39,823 34%
#4 Drexel University

Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit

$39,463 48%
#5 Bucknell University

Lewisburg, Private Not For Profit

$39,359 48%
#6 Villanova University

Villanova, Private Not For Profit

$38,303 49%
#7 Dickinson College

Carlisle, Private Not For Profit

$37,342 50%
#8 Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr, Private Not For Profit

$37,015 50%
#9 Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Private Not For Profit

$36,983 51%
#10 University of Scranton

Scranton, Private Not For Profit

$36,093 45%
#11 Saint Joseph's University

Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit

$35,780 44%
#12 Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary Overbrook

Wynnewood, Private Not For Profit

$35,337 10%
#13 Muhlenberg College

Allentown, Private Not For Profit

$35,152 50%
#14 Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, Private Not For Profit

$34,850 54%
#15 Widener University Main Campus

Chester, Private Not For Profit

$32,695 50%
#16 Duquesne University

Pittsburgh, Private Not For Profit

$32,408 45%
#17 The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College

Philadelphia, Private For Profit

$31,516 15%
#18 Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences

Lancaster, Private Not For Profit

$31,499 27%
#19 University of the Sciences

Philadelphia, Private Not For Profit

$31,497 32%
#20 Ursinus College

Collegeville, Private Not For Profit

$31,400 56%