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Most expensive colleges Survey: Landmark and Sarah Lawrence hold on to the top spots. October 22, 2004: 4:18 PM EDT By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN/Money senior writer NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Quick: What will $36,750 buy you?
College costs spike again Only a year's worth of tuition at the country's most expensive college, n ot including room and board. Landmark College, which caters to students with learning disabilities suc h as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, has the dubi ous honor of being this year's most expensive college, according to a li st compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The change year-over-year represents a 41 percent increase.
report from the College Board relea sed earlier this week. The list of the top 10 most expensive colleges this year is similar to th at of 2003, with a few exceptions. Brown and Brandeis got knocked off an d were replaced by George Washington and Columbia. Sarah Lawrence typically ranks high on the lis t because it has a very small endowment. For schools with larger endowme nts and hence other sources of financial support, tuition doesn't accoun t for such a large part of their budgets. MOST EXPENSIVE COLLEGES Here's a list of the most expensive tuition bills for 2004-05, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The figures do not include room, b oard or other costs of attendance. Source: Chronicle of Higher Education While private colleges are the most expensive overall, public colleges an d universities saw far larger tuition increases.
r eported that the average tuition for undergrads attending four-year publ ic universities jumped 105 percent this year. But the Chronicle of Higher Education found tuition hikes far greater tha n that at many schools. Among the four-year public colleges that had the top 5 largest increases in tuition are the University of Texas at Austin, where in-state tuition soared 369 percent to $5,735; the University of Massachusetts at Dartm outh, where in-state tuition jumped 273 percent to $7,802; and the Univ ersity of Massachusetts at Lowell, where in-state tuition jumped 270 pe rcent to $7,891.
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