<p>Hawkette, I don't get the point of your post. It seems quite random. How about we rank the top 50 universities of the USNWR according to cost of attendance? Afterall, it is only fair to compare all universities (private or public) of equal quality according to average total cost of attendance, right? Those students have to eat and sleep at the end of the day!</p>
<h1>1 $50,345, Boston College</h1>
<h1>2 $50,275, Georgetown University</h1>
<h1>3 $50,182, New York University</h1>
<h1>4 $49,358, Tufts University</h1>
<h1>5 $49,329, University of Chicago</h1>
<h1>6 $49,306, Columbia University</h1>
<h1>7 $49,278, Johns Hopkins University</h1>
<h1>8 $49,038, University of Southern California</h1>
<h1>9 $49,033, Vanderbilt University</h1>
<h1>10 $48,884, Washington University-St Louis</h1>
<h1>11 $48,720, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</h1>
<h1>12 $48,584, Carnegie Mellon University</h1>
<h1>13 $48,420, Northwestern University</h1>
<h1>14 $48,194, Cornell University</h1>
<h1>15 $48,148, University of Pennsylvania</h1>
<h1>16 $48,060, University of Rochester</h1>
<h1>17 $47,740, Brown University</h1>
<h1>18 $47,694, Dartmouth College</h1>
<h1>19 $47,648, Brandeis University</h1>
<h1>20 $47,525, Duke University</h1>
<h1>21 $47,320, Lehigh University</h1>
<h1>22 $47,250, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>23 $47,215, Harvard University</h1>
<h1>24 $47,212, Stanford University</h1>
<h1>25 $46,920, Wake Forest University</h1>
<h1>26 $46,908, Emory University</h1>
<h1>27 $46,675, University of Notre Dame</h1>
<h1>28 $46,000, Yale University</h1>
<h1>29 $45,695, Princeton University</h1>
<h1>30 $44,842, Case Western Reserve University</h1>
<h1>31 $44,583, California Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>32 $44,034, University of California-Berkeley</h1>
<h1>33 $41,974, Yeshiva University</h1>
<h1>34 $41,666, University of California-Santa Barbara</h1>
<h1>35 $40,634, University of California-Davis</h1>
<h1>36 $40,591, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>
<h1>37 $39,752, University of California-San Diego</h1>
<h1>38 $39,746, Rice University</h1>
<h1>39 $38,522, University of California-Los Angeles</h1>
<h1>40 $37,442, University of California-Irvine</h1>
<h1>41 $37,420, University of Virginia</h1>
<h1>42 $34,298, University of Texas-Austin</h1>
<h1>43 $34,110, College of William & Mary</h1>
<h1>44 $34,098, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign</h1>
<h1>45 $30,892, Pennsylvania State University-University Park</h1>
<h1>46 $30,621, Georgia Insitute of Technology</h1>
<h1>47 $30,468, University of Washington</h1>
<h1>48 $30,412, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill</h1>
<h1>49 $28,828, University of Wisconsin-Madison</h1>
<h1>50 $24,861, University of Florida</h1>
<p>There doesn't seem to be much of a correlation between quality and price. Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale are not among the 20 most expensive universities.</p>