US Top 100 Colleges Tuition & Cost Comparison

Forbes has announced America's Best Colleges July, 2012. Here, we provide tuition and living costs comparison between the top 100 us colleges.

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The top state that has most schools in top 100 list is Massachusetts. and California and New York State has 9 schools and Pennsylvania has 9 schools in the list. 33 States has at at least 1 schools in top 100 colleges and 27 states have none. Next table shows number of top 100 schools by states.

State	Number of Schools
Massachusetts	13 schools
California	11 schools
New York	11 schools
Pennsylvania	9 schools
Connecticut	4 schools
Illinois	4 schools
North Carolina	4 schools
Virginia	4 schools
Indiana	3 schools
Maine	3 schools
Colorado	2 schools
District of Columbia	2 schools
Maryland	2 schools
Michigan	2 schools
Minnesota	2 schools
Ohio	2 schools
Oregon	2 schools
Tennessee	2 schools
Texas	2 schools
Washington	2 schools
Florida	1 schools
Georgia	1 schools
Iowa	1 schools
Kentucky	1 schools
Missouri	1 schools
Nebraska	1 schools
New Hampshire	1 schools
New Jersey	1 schools
Rhode Island	1 schools
South Carolina	1 schools
Utah	1 schools
Vermont	1 schools
Wisconsin	1 schools

Tuition and Living Cost Comparison Table
Next table shows tuition and living costs comparison by order of college ranking. You can see detail information of tuition costs and financial information of desired school by following links on the school name.

2012 US Top 100 College Tuition Comparison Summary Table

Ranking	School Name	Location	Tuition		Fees	Books & Supplies	Living Costs
			In-State	Out-of-State			On Campus	Off Campus
1	Princeton University	Princeton, New Jersey	$ 37,000	$ 37,000	$ 865	$ 1,200	$ 14,869	N/A
2	Williams College	Williamstown, Massachusetts	$ 42,938	$ 42,938	$ 252	$ 800	$ 13,151	N/A
3	Stanford University	Stanford, California	$ 40,050	$ 40,050	$ 1,514	$ 1,500	$ 14,691	N/A
4	University of Chicago	Chicago, Illinois	$ 41,853	$ 41,853	$ 930	$ 1,300	$ 14,870	N/A
5	Yale University	New Haven, Connecticut	$ 40,500	$ 40,500	N/A	$ 3,150	$ 14,600	N/A
6	Harvard University	Cambridge, Massachusetts	$ 36,305	$ 36,305	$ 3,546	$ 1,000	$ 15,149	N/A
8	Columbia University in the City of New York	New York, New York	$ 43,088	$ 43,088	$ 2,202	$ 1,040	$ 12,878	N/A
9	Pomona College	Claremont, California	$ 39,572	$ 39,572	$ 310	$ 900	$ 14,536	N/A
10	Swarthmore College	Swarthmore, Pennsylvania	$ 40,816	$ 40,816	$ 334	$ 1,150	$ 13,595	N/A
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts	$ 40,460	$ 40,460	$ 272	$ 1,050	$ 13,488	N/A
12	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Indiana	$ 40,910	$ 40,910	$ 507	$ 950	$ 12,890	N/A
13	Amherst College	Amherst, Massachusetts	$ 42,170	$ 42,170	$ 728	$ 1,000	$ 13,000	N/A
14	Bowdoin College	Brunswick, Maine	$ 42,386	$ 42,386	$ 430	$ 820	$ 12,904	N/A
15	Washington and Lee University	Lexington, Virginia	$ 40,990	$ 40,990	$ 937	$ 1,800	$ 11,116	N/A
16	Wellesley College	Wellesley, Massachusetts	$ 40,410	$ 40,410	$ 250	$ 800	$ 13,840	$ 3,050
17	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	$ 37,620	$ 37,620	$ 4,478	$ 1,160	$ 14,102	N/A
18	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, California	$ 36,387	$ 36,387	$ 1,317	$ 1,323	$ 15,063	$ 14,913
19	Brown University	Providence, Rhode Island	$ 41,328	$ 41,328	$ 902	$ 1,312	$ 12,608	N/A
20	Vassar College	Poughkeepsie, New York	$ 44,050	$ 44,050	$ 655	$ 900	$ 11,780	N/A
21	Wesleyan University	Middletown, Connecticut	$ 43,404	$ 43,404	$ 270	$ 1,300	$ 13,397	N/A
22	Northwestern University	Evanston, Illinois	$ 41,592	$ 41,592	$ 391	$ 1,797	$ 15,049	N/A
23	Claremont McKenna College	Claremont, California	$ 41,995	$ 41,995	$ 245	$ 900	$ 14,725	$ 14,931
24	Duke University	Durham, North Carolina	$ 40,665	$ 40,665	$ 1,273	$ 1,340	$ 14,047	N/A
25	Colby College	Waterville, Maine	$ 41,020	$ 41,020	$ 1,800	$ 700	$ 11,880	N/A
26	Boston College	Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts	$ 41,480	$ 41,480	$ 724	$ 1,000	$ 13,524	$ 9,300
27	Haverford College	Haverford, Pennsylvania	$ 41,830	$ 41,830	$ 378	$ 1,194	$ 14,310	N/A
28	Harvey Mudd College	Claremont, California	$ 42,140	$ 42,140	$ 270	$ 800	$ 14,758	N/A
29	Colorado College	Colorado Springs, Colorado	$ 39,900	$ 39,900	N/A	$ 1,182	$ 10,918	N/A
30	Davidson College	Davidson, North Carolina	$ 38,481	$ 38,481	$ 385	$ 1,000	$ 12,632	$ 12,632
31	Carleton College	Northfield, Minnesota	$ 42,690	$ 42,690	$ 252	$ 730	$ 12,668	N/A
32	Tufts University	Medford, Massachusetts	$ 41,998	$ 41,998	$ 964	$ 800	$ 12,838	N/A
33	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, Tennessee	$ 40,320	$ 40,320	$ 1,012	$ 1,344	$ 15,878	N/A
34	Dartmouth College	Hanover, New Hampshire	$ 41,736	$ 41,736	$ 1,260	$ 1,851	$ 13,791	N/A
36	University of Virginia-Main Campus	Charlottesville, Virginia	$ 9,240	$ 33,562	$ 2,546	$ 1,184	$ 11,016	N/A
37	Rice University	Houston, Texas	$ 34,900	$ 34,900	$ 651	$ 800	$ 13,820	$ 13,820
38	Georgetown University	Washington, District of Columbia	$ 40,920	$ 40,920	$ 473	$ 1,200	$ 15,532	N/A
39	Kenyon College	Gambier, Ohio	$ 41,090	$ 41,090	$ 1,540	$ 1,800	$ 11,250	N/A
40	College of William and Mary	Williamsburg, Virginia	$ 8,270	$ 30,547	$ 4,862	$ 1,150	$ 10,692	N/A
41	College of the Holy Cross	Worcester, Massachusetts	$ 40,910	$ 40,910	$ 578	$ 700	$ 12,170	N/A
42	Middlebury College	Middlebury, Vermont	$ 42,048	$ 42,048	$ 380	$ 1,000	$ 13,622	N/A
44	Whitman College	Walla Walla, Washington	$ 40,180	$ 40,180	$ 316	$ 1,400	$ 10,960	N/A
45	University of California-Los Angeles	Los Angeles, California	$ 11,220	$ 34,098	$ 1,466	$ 1,509	$ 17,361	$ 14,487
46	Emory University	Atlanta, Georgia	$ 40,600	$ 40,600	$ 564	$ 1,100	$ 13,728	N/A
47	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, North Carolina	$ 5,128	$ 24,953	$ 1,881	$ 1,150	$ 13,156	$ 13,156
48	Colgate University	Hamilton, New York	$ 42,625	$ 42,625	$ 295	$ 1,110	$ 11,540	N/A
49	Lafayette College	Easton, Pennsylvania	$ 40,340	$ 40,340	$ 318	$ 1,000	$ 13,362	N/A
50	University of California-Berkeley	Berkeley, California	$ 11,220	$ 34,098	$ 1,614	$ 1,202	$ 18,596	$ 14,125
51	Cornell University	Ithaca, New York	$ 41,325	$ 41,325	$ 216	$ 800	$ 14,784	$ 14,784
52	Bryn Mawr College	Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania	$ 39,860	$ 39,860	$ 964	$ 1,000	$ 13,890	N/A
53	Wake Forest University	Winston Salem, North Carolina	$ 41,100	$ 41,100	$ 476	$ 1,025	$ 13,635	N/A
54	Scripps College	Claremont, California	$ 41,736	$ 41,736	$ 214	$ 800	$ 13,950	N/A
55	Brandeis University	Waltham, Massachusetts	$ 40,514	$ 40,514	$ 1,346	$ 1,000	$ 13,556	$ 13,556
56	Bucknell University	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania	$ 43,628	$ 43,628	$ 238	$ 900	$ 12,374	N/A
57	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, Michigan	$ 12,440	$ 37,588	$ 194	$ 1,048	$ 11,522	$ 11,522
58	Barnard College	New York, New York	$ 40,422	$ 40,422	$ 1,762	$ 1,146	$ 14,748	$ 2,836
59	Sewanee-The University of the South	Sewanee, Tennessee	$ 32,020	$ 32,020	$ 272	$ 800	$ 10,326	N/A
60	Centre College	Danville, Kentucky	$ 34,000	$ 34,000	N/A	$ 1,300	$ 9,800	$ 8,450
61	Wabash College	Crawfordsville, Indiana	$ 31,800	$ 31,800	$ 650	$ 1,000	$ 9,600	N/A
62	Union College	Lincoln, Nebraska	$ 18,120	$ 18,120	$ 660	$ 1,000	$ 9,320	$ 11,700
63	Grinnell College	Grinnell, Iowa	$ 39,250	$ 39,250	$ 560	$ 900	$ 11,134	N/A
64	Hamilton College	Clinton, New York	$ 42,220	$ 42,220	$ 420	$ 1,300	$ 11,330	N/A
65	Kalamazoo College	Kalamazoo, Michigan	$ 35,508	$ 35,508	$ 412	$ 900	$ 9,912	N/A
66	Smith College	Northampton, Massachusetts	$ 39,800	$ 39,800	$ 270	$ 800	$ 15,123	N/A
67	Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, Maryland	$ 42,280	$ 42,280	N/A	$ 1,200	$ 13,962	N/A
68	Reed College	Portland, Oregon	$ 42,540	$ 42,540	$ 260	$ 950	$ 11,950	$ 7,140
69	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	$ 43,160	$ 43,160	$ 850	$ 1,000	$ 12,510	N/A
70	Connecticut College	New London, Connecticut	$ 43,695	$ 43,695	$ 295	$ 900	$ 12,380	N/A
71	Washington University in St Louis	Saint Louis, Missouri	$ 40,950	$ 40,950	$ 1,042	$ 1,390	$ 15,519	N/A
72	Santa Clara University	Santa Clara, California	$ 39,048	$ 39,048	N/A	$ 1,656	$ 15,093	$ 14,922
73	University of Richmond	University of Richmond, Virginia	$ 43,170	$ 43,170	N/A	$ 1,050	$ 10,240	$ 10,240
74	Occidental College	Los Angeles, California	$ 41,860	$ 41,860	$ 1,011	$ 1,180	$ 14,292	$ 11,041
75	Oberlin College	Oberlin, Ohio	$ 42,842	$ 42,842	$ 368	$ 1,808	$ 12,250	N/A
76	Bates College	Lewiston, Maine	$ 42,550	$ 42,550	$ 250	$ 800	$ 13,750	N/A
77	Mount Holyoke College	South Hadley, Massachusetts	$ 41,270	$ 41,270	$ 186	$ 950	$ 13,090	N/A
78	Macalester College	Saint Paul, Minnesota	$ 41,800	$ 41,800	$ 200	$ 1,010	$ 10,284	N/A
79	DePauw University	Greencastle, Indiana	$ 36,500	$ 36,500	$ 470	$ 900	$ 10,930	N/A
80	University of Florida	Gainesville, Florida	$ 4,060	$ 25,276	$ 1,597	$ 1,070	$ 12,530	$ 12,530
81	Wheaton College	Norton, Massachusetts	$ 41,600	$ 41,600	$ 294	$ 940	$ 11,730	$ 2,560
82	Hillsdale College	Michgan	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
83	Villanova University	Villanova, Pennsylvania	$ 40,530	$ 40,530	$ 580	$ 950	$ 12,460	$ 12,460
84	Skidmore College	Saratoga Springs, New York	$ 41,520	$ 41,520	$ 860	$ 1,300	$ 12,820	N/A
85	Lawrence University	Appleton, Wisconsin	$ 38,205	$ 38,205	$ 276	$ 900	$ 9,290	N/A
86	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Champaign, Illinois	$ 11,847	$ 27,219	$ 2,734	$ 1,200	$ 12,590	N/A
87	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	Seattle, Washington	$ 9,746	$ 27,230	$ 828	$ 1,035	$ 12,450	$ 12,450
88	George Washington University	Washington, District of Columbia	$ 42,332	$ 42,332	$ 45	$ 1,275	$ 11,725	N/A
89	Trinity College	Hartford, Connecticut	$ 41,980	$ 41,980	$ 2,090	$ 1,000	$ 12,505	N/A
90	Willamette University	Salem, Oregon	$ 38,800	$ 38,800	$ 212	$ 920	$ 10,470	N/A
91	St Lawrence University	Canton, New York	$ 42,420	$ 42,420	$ 315	$ 750	$ 11,905	$ 5,300
92	Southwestern University	Georgetown, Texas	$ 33,440	$ 33,440	N/A	$ 1,000	$ 10,900	N/A
93	Brigham Young University-Provo	Provo, Utah	$ 4,560	$ 4,560	N/A	$ 900	$ 11,128	$ 11,128
94	Franklin and Marshall College	Lancaster, Pennsylvania	$ 42,510	$ 42,510	$ 100	$ 1,200	$ 12,770	N/A
95	University of Southern California	Los Angeles, California	$ 42,162	$ 42,162	$ 656	$ 1,500	$ 13,558	$ 13,558
96	Furman University	Greenville, South Carolina	$ 39,200	$ 39,200	$ 360	$ 1,150	$ 12,386	$ 12,386
97	New York University	New York, New York	$ 39,344	$ 39,344	$ 2,262	$ 1,070	$ 16,182	$ 16,182
98	Boston University	Boston, Massachusetts	$ 40,848	$ 40,848	$ 572	$ 940	$ 14,482	N/A
99	Wheaton College	Wheaton, Illinois	$ 28,960	$ 28,960	N/A	$ 816	$ 10,220	N/A
100	University of Rochester	Rochester, New York	$ 41,040	$ 41,040	$ 786	$ 1,250	$ 13,684	N/A
Average			$ 36,847	$ 38,840	$ 865	$ 1,115	$ 12,952	$ 11,256

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