The dorm prices show that this sometimes-overlooked higher-education cost can not only exceed $13,000 per academic year, but it also almost equals the price of earning that year’s credits. Read ahead to see which schools have the nation’s most expensive dorms. (Prices are for a double room and meal plan during the 2011-12 academic year.)
The New School is based in New York and is divided into seven colleges, including the New School for Social Research and Parsons, which aspiring fashionistas will recognize from the television series "Project Runway."
It has five dormitories, including in lower Manhattan, the East Village and Chelsea. Room and board at the 13th Street location costs $18,080, making it the most expensive college dormitory in the U.S.
Attending the school gives students an opportunity to take courses that they likely couldn’t take at other schools, such as “Genre: The Road Movie,” “Tabloidization: Reputation and the Attention Economy” and “Georges Bataille - Sex, Death, and Religion.”
Like so many other things in the Big Apple, New York University isn’t cheap. Tuition per semester is $19,672, and room and board is $15,181. However, this is a relative bargain, compared with the rent that anyone else would pay to live with one roommate in the heart of Greenwich Village.
NYU has multiple locations throughout the city, including one in Brooklyn. It also has centers in Paris, Shanghai and Tel Aviv, and it opened a campus in Abu Dhabi in 2010.
Fordham University students who want to be where the action is can live at McMahon Hall near Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Undergraduate students are still subject to the same $39,235 tuition fee for the year as students at Rose Hill. At $15,000, room and board is only $75 higher than Rose Hill’s.
That $75 buys quite a bit. The campus is just minutes from Central Park and a couple of subway stops from every cultural attraction that midtown Manhattan has to offer. And then there’s Lincoln Center, a stone’s throw away.
Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus is in the North Bronx. For the academic year, full-time undergraduates pay $39,235 for tuition.
The Rose Hill campus covers 85 acres and is “one of the biggest privately owned green spaces in New York City,” according to CampusGrotto.com. In addition to this campus, Fordham operates two others in New York state, one in China and one in London.
St. John’s is a private university founded in 1870. It was originally in Brooklyn but moved to its current location in Queens in the 1950s. Undergraduate tuition is $33,125 for the academic year.
Alumni include former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel. The school provides students with free or low-cost tickets to Broadway shows, museums and even Yankees games.
Suffolk University's main campus is in the historic Beacon Hill neighborhood. Undergraduate tuition per semester is $14,889.
Most undergraduate students live at the Residence Hall at Tremont Street, although the newer Miller Hall, which opened in 2003, now houses about 30 percent of incoming students. The school also has campuses on Cape Cod and in Madrid.
For a full-time undergraduate student at Manhattanville College, tuition is $17,010 a semester.
The school has 1,700 undergraduates and 1,000 graduate students, according to its website. Its largest residence is Spellman Hall, which has more than 200 rooms and houses over 400 students. The 100-acre campus is 30 miles away from New York City.
Pace University has several campuses, but most incoming students live in a double in Maria’s Tower at One Pace Plaza in New York. Access to the cafeteria, library and classrooms is just one elevator ride away.
The location is ideal for anyone wishing to live near New York tourist attractions. It’s near the Brooklyn Bridge, South Street Seaport and Wall Street, and for students wishing to impulsively tie the knot, City Hall is blocks away. Graduates include television chef Rachael Ray, actor Vincent Pastore and civil rights attorney William Kunstler.
The cost of room and board at University of California – Berkeley may be a small price to pay to live at the school where no less than 16 chemical elements have been discovered.
U.C. Berkeley is one of the world’s most highly regarded universities. At least, that’s what a Gallup poll found in 2003, and the public perception remains.
The school has awarded diplomas to a wide range of people in the technology sector, including Apple’s Steve Wozniak and Google’s Eric E. Schmidt.
Compared with some of the others on this list, this year’s cost to attend Marymount Manhattan College is not so bad. For $38,738, you can be a student at the Manhattan liberal arts college, including $23,542 in tuition.
Marymount students can live in its 55th Street Residence Hall, which at 46 stories is one of the tallest college dormitories in the U.S. The building has halls with different themes, so those residing on the "Creative and Performing Arts" hall don’t have to mix it up with the denizens of the "Substance Free" hall.
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