Cost of education versus tuition

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Amherst, Bowdoin, Carleton, and Wesleyan all show instructional costs per FTE student in the $25K-$30K/year range (according to IPEDS data)…
Vassar is slightly higher ($31K); Pomona and Williams are higher still ($36K and $40K respectively).
Davidson and Reed are lower ($21K and $23K respectively).

However, even within the range of small LACs (where economies of scale are less available than at bigger schools), there are large variations. For just instructional costs, University of Minnesota - Morris spends only $6,814, much less than the LACs named above. Juniata College is listed at $8,820, Clark University is listed at $11,577, and Knox College is listed at $11,484.