7 most expensive US colleges

go to a junior college first...

 

The reporter of this article is saying on the 1/3 of all the liberal can afford to go to the most expensive colleges while the other 2/3 can't they don't believe in the liberal agenda. I'll bet this reporter didn't attend one of the most expensive colleges and wemt to a community college. Or college that he or she could afford. A typical liberal to write an article saying who can afford to go to expensive coleges and can't.  

Elitist nonsense. Bring back traditional college/university education. Stop doing industry's jobs and let industry train their own fodder at their own cost.

College has always been about how much money your PARENTS have. Not what you know or how much you've learned. The more prestigious the college the better you're looked upon in the business world. It's just a bragging right.

I doubt very seriously that a person who graduated from Fordham is much more knowledgeable & more valuable in the workforce than someone who graduated from University of Redlands. But when the business owners get together at the local bar it's a nice bragging right I guess to say, "All my employee's have Haaaaaaarvard degree's" (with the pinky finger turned up while drinking tea).

RPI- $59000+ a year, don't see why this was missed

I attended USC for just a little over a semester, when the economy became very unstable a few years back. I had used all my saving to attend the school of my dreams, lost my job, my immediate family lives 6,000 miles away and had nowhere to go. I moved back east where I had some family and took a job. They were not interested in anyone moving up the ladder without a degree and had very limited things they would pay for you to go to school for. So, I moved on as scary as it was to give up a good job at this time in our  country.

I have bigger dreams though, and I knew I would never be where I wanted to be staying there. I have been at my current job now 8 months and was promoted at 6 months, where I took an administration job. I am now enrolled in college for my BBA. All of that to simply say. I took an administration job simply by hard work, perseverance, and pushing myself to do better. People in management always take notice of hard workers. Although in some cases it might help, you don't need a degree for everything. This may not be the america it once was where you could leave a job you didn't care for and have a new one next week. However, it is still America and we are still Americans, and anything you want and work for is possible! It's all about adapting to a different and more difficult time in which we now live.

The most expensive colleges in America are undoubtedly the service academies - and we pay for them.

The schools listed are private and heavily endowed.  This means they are able to create some amazing financial aid packages.  Our family is middle class----towards the low end.  My daughter isn't a "rich kid", or spoiled or entitled as other posts have implied these students must be.  She is, however, really smart and very hard working.  She is attending the University of Chicago.  With the grants, work study, capped loans, etc. from UChicago, her 4 years there will cost less than it would to attend (in-state tuition) our state university. If you've got the grades and the test scores, my advice to those who are college bound is not to automatically shy away from the $$$ schools.  The financial aid advisors are very helpful.  You might be surprised at what you find out. 

Hey, all you community college and U. of Phoenix grads. There's no doubt that kids who study at these expensive schools gain a leg up on the rest of us schlubs in a variety of ways. It's hard to argue with faculty/student ratios below 10, and except for the many affirmative action student these schools tend to admit (and fund), one can make important connections with well heeled peers, often of benefit for a life of networking. And, graduate and professional schools, along with some employers, are hip to having the names of some of these places on the heading of the sheepskin. But it's also a matter of value, what one wishes to accomplish, how a student approaches the undergraduate experience, post college plans, and more. First, for every small private school charging very high tuition that ranks in the top say 50 of all schools, on fair/statistically weighted indices, there are many that just don't cut the mustard academically. Not terrible places to study, but not really special.Typically, these have high cultural standing in the community/region, and in family college lore. Also, with 1,300 students and ratios of 10, we're talking about barely over 100 faculty (yep, I went to schools when grades in math meant something), not including possibilities to expand exposure to other professors via various exchange/external course offerings. I rarely see Nobel laureates on the faculties of small private schools, as one does at first rank public institutions, such as UT Austin. Some faculty deadwood do hang on at states schools, but by inquiry, one can often avoir these folks, and by shear volume of faculty, a clued undergrad can experience classroom time with some of these academic giants, not to mention schmoozing with some in the form of research opportunities, publishing, mentor-ship, reference letters, etc. I am the son of factory workers, and only ever saw the Ivy League or other such fancy academic institution late in life (after college. graduate and professional school) for my training in acupuncture. Otherwise it was state schools all the way. Two (valid) doctorates, and several languages, early financial independence, study in several countries, etc. ---all later, and this broader perspective on the choice of college seemed to work for me. Not for everyone. And, sure, these high priced schools have their place, and many do offer almost all of the tuition in aid. But in the quite large grey zone of value, many kids finish with pretty big student debt as well, which can be blamed on liberal federal policies, in large part. Not to forget the excessive retirement deals for coddled faculty/admin. staff. ---as with municipal, state and federal workers (compared with what's more typical in the dreaded private sector), in contributing to college tuition increases far outstripping year to year increases in just about everything else, including health care. Knowledge is power, always has been, and this broader perspective along with motivation, sometimes can trump the choice of a ritzy school. Methinks. Aa.