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Values calculated July 2014

Rank	Name	State	Cost	Total Student Population
1	Williams College	Massachusetts	$61,850	2,124
2	Stanford University	California	$60,749	18,519
3	Swarthmore College	Pennsylvania	$60,671	1,552
4	Princeton University	New Jersey	$55,832	7,975
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Massachusetts	$59,020	11,189
6	Yale University	Connecticut	$61,620	11,906
7	Harvard University	Massachusetts	$59,950	28,147
8	Pomona College	California	$59,730	1,607
9	United States Military Academy	New York	N/A	4,592
10	Amherst College	Massachusetts	$61,544	1,817
11	Haverford College	Pennsylvania	$61,898	1,205
12	University of Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	$61,800	24,725
13	Brown University	Rhode Island	$60,460	8,885
14	Bowdoin College	Maine	$59,900	1,839
15	Wesleyan University	Connecticut	$62,849	3,262
16	Carleton College	Minnesota	$60,425	2,055
17	University of Notre Dame	Indiana	$60,117	12,126
18	Dartmouth College	New Hampshire	$63,279	6,277
19	Northwestern University	Illinois	$63,193	21,215
20	Columbia University	New York	$64,144	26,471
21	California Institute of Technology	California	$58,755	2,243
22	Davidson College	North Carolina	$57,458	1,790
23	Duke University	North Carolina	$61,748	15,386
24	University of Chicago	Illinois	$64,988	15,245
25	Tufts University	Massachusetts	$61,000	10,837
26	Vassar College	New York	$61,320	2,406
27	United States Naval Academy	Maryland	N/A	4,536
28	Georgetown University	District of Columbia	$62,179	17,357
29	Wellesley College	Massachusetts	$59,092	2,482
30	Middlebury College	Vermont	$59,470	2,516
31	Cornell University	New York	$61,618	21,424
32	Rice University	Texas	$54,291	6,484
33	Washington and Lee University	Virginia	$58,575	2,302
34	United States Air Force Academy	Colorado	N/A	4,120
35	Barnard College	New York	$61,512	2,504
36	Boston College	Massachusetts	$60,706	14,605
37	University of California, Berkeley	California	$56,197	35,893
38	Colgate University	New York	$60,050	2,886
39	Colby College	Maine	$59,110	1,863
40	University of Virginia	Virginia	$53,461	23,907
41	College of William and Mary	Virginia	$51,306	8,258
42	Kenyon College	Ohio	$60,070	1,667
43	Oberlin College	Ohio	$62,132	2,944
44	University of California, Los Angeles	California	$55,294	39,945
45	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Michigan	$53,490	43,426
46	Reed College	Oregon	$59,630	1,455
47	Whitman College	Washington	$56,600	1,539
48	Lafayette College	Pennsylvania	$59,750	2,488
49	Smith College	Massachusetts	$60,167	3,212
50	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	North Carolina	$45,806	29,278
51	Colorado College	Colorado	$57,400	2,022
52	Harvey Mudd College	California	$63,860	784
53	College of the Holy Cross	Massachusetts	$57,832	2,926
54	Vanderbilt University	Tennessee	$61,112	12,710
55	Hamilton College	New York	$59,590	1,884
56	Franklin and Marshall College	Pennsylvania	$60,765	2,365
57	Union College	New York	$60,150	2,241
58	Grinnell College	Iowa	$56,354	1,674
59	Carnegie Mellon University	Pennsylvania	$62,032	11,978
60	Bates College	Maine	$61,000	1,753
61	Wake Forest University	North Carolina	$60,242	7,432
62	University of Rochester	New York	$61,340	10,510
63	Washington University in Saint Louis	Missouri	$61,808	13,952
64	Cooper Union	New York	$60,075	939
65	Bryn Mawr College	Pennsylvania	$59,760	1,765
66	Macalester College	Minnesota	$57,478	2,070
67	Johns Hopkins University	Maryland	$61,502	20,871
68	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Illinois	$43,468	44,520
69	Scripps College	California	$61,370	962
70	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Wisconsin	$40,181	42,269
71	Villanova University	Pennsylvania	$58,736	10,583
72	New York University	New York	$63,540	44,516
73	University of Washington	Washington	$46,608	43,485
74	Brandeis University	Massachusetts	$61,070	5,808
75	Wheaton College	Illinois	$42,390	3,034
76	University of Texas, Austin	Texas	$50,200	52,186
77	Lehigh University	Pennsylvania	$57,145	7,080
78	University of Southern California	California	$62,180	39,958
79	Brigham Young University	Utah	$17,496	34,409
80	Occidental College	California	$63,363	2,178
81	Centre College	Kentucky	$48,020	1,344
82	University of Maryland, College Park	Maryland	$42,920	37,248
83	Trinity College	Connecticut	$62,310	2,371
84	Connecticut College	Connecticut	$60,780	1,933
85	Wofford College	South Carolina	$49,449	1,619
86	Santa Clara University	California	$59,589	8,519
87	University of Florida	Florida	$41,381	49,913
88	Dickinson College	Pennsylvania	$60,183	2,386
89	Boston University	Massachusetts	$61,446	32,603
90	Georgia Institute of Technology	Georgia	$42,688	21,557
91	DePauw University	Indiana	$53,290	2,336
92	Earlham College	Indiana	$52,710	1,196
93	Rhodes College	Tennessee	$53,422	1,927
94	University of Georgia	Georgia	$40,274	34,519
95	Denison University	Ohio	$56,520	2,339
96	University of Richmond	Virginia	$57,630	4,361
97	Mount Holyoke College	Massachusetts	$55,496	2,347
98	Sewanee—University of the South	Tennessee	$47,970	1,588
99	Sarah Lawrence College	New York	$64,122	1,736
100	Furman University	South Carolina	$57,276	2,915