Tennessee Average Net Price Ranking

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

Most Expensive Colleges in Tennessee by Average Net Price

The highest net price colleges in Tennessee 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. Sewanee The University of the South leads the list with a $36,244 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.

Tennessee's Most Expensive Colleges by Average Net Price
College Net Price Discount
#1 Sewanee The University of the South

Sewanee, Private Not For Profit

$36,244 44%
#2 Belmont University

Nashville, Private Not For Profit

$34,368 35%
#3 Rhodes College

Memphis, Private Not For Profit

$29,852 53%
#4 Virginia College School of Business and Health

Chattanooga, Private For Profit

$28,851 -26%
#5 Visible Music College

Memphis, Private Not For Profit

$27,863 -7%
#6 Cumberland University

Lebanon, Private Not For Profit

$27,071 25%
#7 O'More College of Design

Franklin, Private Not For Profit

$26,987 29%
#8 Union University

Jackson, Private Not For Profit

$26,906 43%
#9 Lipscomb University

Nashville, Private Not For Profit

$26,421 48%
#10 Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Private Not For Profit

$25,804 66%
#11 Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Private Not For Profit

$24,491 25%
#12 Daymar College Clarksville

Clarksville, Private For Profit

$24,011 17%
#13 Nossi College of Art

Madison, Private For Profit

$22,843 10%
#14 Daymar College Murfreesboro

Murfreesboro, Private For Profit

$22,636 23%
#15 Daymar College Nashville

Nashville, Private For Profit

$22,367 24%
#16 Lincoln Memorial University

Harrogate, Private Not For Profit

$22,251 39%
#17 King College

Bristol, Private Not For Profit

$22,020 50%
#18 American Baptist College

Nashville, Private Not For Profit

$21,785 4%
#19 Fisk University

Nashville, Private Not For Profit

$21,450 41%
#20 Free Will Baptist Bible College

Nashville, Private Not For Profit

$21,142 25%