America's Priciest Dorms

College Search & Selection
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<p>article from yahoo finance section today:
<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/special/luxury081706_article1.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://biz.yahoo.com/special/luxury081706_article1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>slideshow of the top 10:
<a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/08/dorms/index_01.htm?campaign_id=yahoo_dorms%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/08/dorms/index_01.htm?campaign_id=yahoo_dorms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>For those who didnt bother reading:
1. University of California, Berkeley
2. Suffolk University
3. Marymount Manhattan College
4. Sarah Lawrence College
5. Drexel University
6. University of California, Los Angeles
7. New York University
8. Eugune Lang College
9. University of California, Santa Cruz
10. Manhattanville College</p>

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<p>UCB and UCLA represent. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>Wow. I was kind of surprised Pepperdine wasn't up there-- isn't it kind of famous for it's really gorgeous dorms?</p>

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<p>I guess Pepperdine's dorms are nice AND cheap...that's very rare.</p>

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<p>Drexel?!!?!? Give me a break..... Anyone paying that much to live in a dorm in West Philadelphia is getting seriously ripped off.....:rolleyes:</p>

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<p>I heard Drexel had a really bad campus..that true?</p>

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<p>It doesn’t have much of a campus (compared to Penn, two minutes away), but what it does have is pretty deplorable.</p>

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<p>What I've seen of Drexel is pretty hideous.</p>

<p>I'm surprised NYU doesn't come out on top. The dorms at Water Street are vastly spacious condos with panoramic views of the Brooklyn Bridge: $10,000 a year. I heard Julliard and Fordham/Lincoln Center have similar costs, though.</p>

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<p>Aw man, Berkeley is first? The unit rooms are tiny!</p>

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<p>people choosing berkeley/ucla dorms are definitely seeing a price increase cuz both campuses just built multiple new dorms and they need more than just the new dorm residents to pay for them :rolleyes:</p>

<p>i go to ucla and paid only around $8k-$9k a year for my 2 years of dorming (triple in residence hall) though.</p>

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Drexel?!!?!? Give me a break..... Anyone paying that much to live in a dorm in West Philadelphia is getting seriously ripped off.....

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<p>Haha...so true. I'm also surprised NYU and UCLA weren't #1 and #2 respectively. People I know that go there are paying a pretty penny. Suffolk for #2 is ridiculous. It is really expensive, but I don't know why anyone would pay to live in dirty, smoggy, noisy downtown Boston.</p>

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<p>i'm paying almost 6000 a semester for a freshmen nyu dorm. does it really get any more expensive then that?</p>

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<p>Yes, ATLien, you will be paying $10,000 when you move to Water Street next year...or slightly more than you're paying now for Lafayette. </p>

<p>Priceless, I find it interesting Suffolk is so expensive when Emerson is in basically the same location and didn't even make the list...</p>

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<p>^^Now that you mention it, that is true. Maybe its because Suffolk just built some nice new dorms??</p>

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<p>haha...and I thought paying 10k a year for dorms was cheap.....</p>

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<p>I was offered a $14,000 single dorm room for UCLA. I think instead of building new dorms, they should focus on building low cost apartments.</p>

<p>I ended up finding a place off campus for 500/month.</p>

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<p>I'm surprised GWU didn't make the list</p>

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<p>UCLA actually offered you a single? With the increase in on-campus housing demand for Fall 2006, it would make more sense to offer you a triple instead... :rolleyes:</p>