OT--GW in at #2...

[Mr. Neutral]

...of most expensive colleges, with tuition, room & board coming in at 50+K. Yikes!

http://www.walletpop.com/college-financ ... e-colleges

[gym from delhi]

I was in Oxford Sunday for the club FB game, and was struck once again by how attractive a school Miami is. The question is why would a young person go to GW, which is no better academically than Miami, for quadruple the cost? Notre dame checks in at $49 K a year, so I would ask the same question. These private schools have lived off the fatted calf for far too long.

[CarlosTheJackal]

gym, I'm not sure what the fatted calf is. High tuition? Where do you draw that line?

GW vs Miami...you're kidding, right? Miami is a swell little Ohio undergrad college, and a pretty competitive student body profile. It is culturally in the middle of nowhere, with the closest outposts of the facsimile of a city, co-op and intern possibilities in freakin Dayton. GW has graduate schools out the wazoo, a huge endowment, and incredible opportunities in virtually every academic and professional discipline. (I will pass over in silence why they can't play basketball in anything nicer than a second-generation high school gym.)

Taking in-state southwest Ohio public U prospective student population out of the mix.....If you could afford out of state tuition at Miami and private school tuition at GW, why would you choose Miami?

[xubuck]

You left out class size and the fact that at private schools you have more real professors and fewer grad assistants teaching classes--many of who have very poor English skills. I've never taught a class larger than 40 at X. Routinely had 200+ at state schools.

[True_Blue]

These prices are sad...
What is more telling is that the difference in price from the #1 school and the #50 school on this list is only around $6k