7 most expensive US colleges

Should state 7 biggest ripoffs in the US.

in 1967 I went to the University of Minnesota for $125 or $750 a year a new house cost $16000 a new car was about $2200 gas was 25 cents a gallon skip ahead to 2012 and everything cost 10 to 14 times as mush with the exception of college that's about 20 to 35 times as much go figure

Note that the cheapest way to attend expensive colleges is to get a graduate teaching assistantship with a full scholarship after first attending a cheap local state college for your bachelor's degree.  Of course, it means you're going to bust your butt to be near the top of your undergrad class.

Back when I was a kid from a poor family in Baltimore commuting to a local college (UMBC) in 1973 and got a $9900/year (which would be $47,000 today) scholarship and a $325/month (about $1500//month today for 9 months/year) tax-free teaching assistantship to IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago, my mother nearly went into shock.  She kept looking at the award letter, repeating over and over, "What's the catch?"

Of course, the catch was that IIT didn't have to hire and provide benefits for full time lab teachers: I taught two 4-hour chemistry lab courses per week.  And the chemistry department made use of us scholarship grad students in cleaning out old cabinets, neutralizing or properly disposing of old chemicals, taking visiting Nobel Prize Winners out to dinner, etc.

And, of course, it was a win-win situation.  I got to go away to a good college and that $325/month more than paid for my dorm fees and other expenses.  I see now that IIT's tuition is only a little over $20,000 now, but the principal is still the same: good school's are best attended as grad students.

I am surprised that Yale, Princeton and Harvard are not on the list.

Once again another unresearched article by MSN. St Olaf College in Northfield MInnesota. Total comprehensive tuition and fees: $50,500. Do your damn homework before you print something. I don't care if it is out of Forbes. They're obviously not that smart either!

Along with the military and the prisons, college keeps us off the streets for a while.  You probably can receive a better education by daily trips to the various libraries that are available in this country; however, the Government is trying to cut the funding for the libraries so that it can toss more money into the secondary schools, which are really internships in how to be silly and do stupid things in the name of "the children are our future".  The sum total conclusion must be that the future is very bleak.  Of course, now the libraries are starting to supply themselves with rubbish that is easy to read and about things that encourage children to be silly and do stupid things.  What America wants is a system that will define a pecking order, which does not really include a superior education but only as much wasted time as the money will permit.  Education does not create genius, and intelligence must be searched out by individuals who like the stuff.  Otherwise, you have what you have now--a bloated entertainment complex.

Wash U gives GREAT scholarships!