Most Expensive College Room & Board Costs


Since Room & Board cost is unavoidable expenses in campus life, the costs is included total expenses for estimating tuition costs. It depends on housing and meal plans you choose. For example, on campus housing and campus meal plans may save some your money or you can choose on campus meal plans living off campus. Of course, if you are stay with your parent or relatives, you can save big money for the room & board.

Here, we analyze and list 30 schools which have expensive room & board costs last year. We note that average room & board charge last year around 8,000. You can see detail cost information of each school by following link on each school name.


Most Expensive College Room & Board Charge

Table. Most Expensive College Room & Board Charge
RankingCollege NameCityStateRoom & Board ($)
1Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation CenterFishersvilleVA18,180
2Berklee College of MusicBostonMA16,460
3University of California-BerkeleyBerkeleyCA15,272
4Fordham UniversityBronxNY14,926
5University of California-Santa CruzSanta CruzCA14,727
6Commonwealth Technical InstituteJohnstownPA14,270
7University of California-Los AngelesLos AngelesCA13,979
8The New England Institute of ArtBrooklineMA13,800
9Fisher CollegeBostonMA13,786
10University of California-MercedMercedCA13,720
11Quinnipiac UniversityHamdenCT13,430
12Emerson CollegeBostonMA13,398
13Lincoln Technical Institute-HartfordHartfordCT13,351
14University of California-Santa BarbaraSanta BarbaraCA13,110
15Columbia College-ChicagoChicagoIL13,039
16St John's SeminaryCamarilloCA13,000
17The Juilliard SchoolNew YorkNY12,770
18American Jewish UniversityLos AngelesCA12,764
19Emmanuel CollegeBostonMA12,750
20Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of TheologyBrooklineMA12,740
21Loyola Marymount UniversityLos AngelesCA12,722
22University of California-DavisDavisCA12,697
23University of ChicagoChicagoIL12,633
24Marywood UniversityScrantonPA12,520
25Mount Ida CollegeNewtonMA12,500
25Bates CollegeLewistonME12,500
27Life UniversityMariettaGA12,480
27Webb InstituteGlen CoveNY12,480
29Wheelock CollegeBostonMA12,370
30Lasell CollegeNewtonMA12,300