The Heaviest Price Tags in Education

While colleges and universities nationwide struggle to balance big bills with slashed budgets and endowments, tuition continues to go up and up. Take a look at some of the heaviest price tags in higher education that are driving more and more students to online and community college. THE HEAVIEST PRICE TAGS IN HIGHER EDUCATION ECONOMICS %24 Tuition Growth Over The Past 30 Years Average College Prices for 2009-2010 Rising Fees & Tuition at Public Universities AVERAGE TUITION AND FEES IN 2009 DOLLARS 1979-1980 TO 2009-2010 $30,000 PRIVATE NOT-FOR-PROFIT 4 YEAR PUBLIC 4 YEAR $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 I||| $10,000 $26,273 $5,000 Published tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities rose at an average annual rate of 4.9% per year beyond general inflation from 1999- 2000 to 2009-10, more rapidly than in either of the PRIVATE FOUR-YEAR 1 4.4 PERCENT FROM LAST YEAR $7,020 previous two decades. Bigger & Better: Schools Compete PUBLIC FOUR-YEAR 1 6.5 PERCENT FROM LAST YEAR $ Highest Paid College Football Coaches $2,544 PUBLIC TWO-YEAR 1 7.7 PERCENT FROM LAST YEAR $377-$420 MORE ON ROOM & BOARD THAN LAST YEAR $25-billion higher education construction industry due to schools trying to outdo each other. $11,528 PETE CARROLL USC $4,400,000 2 CHARLIE WEIS NOTRE DAME $4,200,000 AVG. OUT-OF-STATE STUDENT SURCHARGE PUBLIC FOUR-YEAR 3 URBAN MEYER FLORIDA $4,000,000 4 NICK SABAN ALABAMA $3,900,000 Most Expensive College 2$ Towns / Housing Prices 5 BOB STOOPS OKLAHOMA $3,800,000 Most Expensive Colleges in the U.S. Most Expensive College Dorms BLING! III AMA 1 PALO ALTO, CA STANFORD UNIVERSITY $1,489,726 1 SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE BRONXVILLE, NY $55,788 1 THE NEW SsCHOOL NEW YORK, NY $15,990 2 LOS ANGELES, CA USC, UCLA $1,347,125 2 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, DC $52,161 COOPER UNION NEW YORK, NY $15,275 3 BOSTON, MA BOSTON COLLEGE $1,337,578 3 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, NY $51,993 3 SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY BOSTON, MA $14,544 4 BERKELEY, CA UC-BERKELEY $1,299,750 GEORGE WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, DC $51,775 4 UC - BERKELEY BERKELEY, CA $14,384 5 SAN JOSE, CA SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY $808,926 5 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BALTIMORE, MD $51,690 5 NY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NEW YORK, NY $14,290 Online Colleges The Source for Online Education Information HISTORY 101 09-10 07-08 • SOCIOLOGY GEOMETRY 01-02 99-00 PHYSICS 97-98 95-96 89-90 87-88 85-86 83-84 81-82 79-80 %24