10 Schools With Pricey Dorms

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msmarystrikens of AL 12:35PM February 27, 2010

Thank you US News for letting us know that it is expensive to live in cities with high costs of living, and cheap to live in cities with low cost of living. Furthermore, thank you for gathering this information to prove that dorms also follow this most obvious of economic laws.
I really wonder about the credibility of U.S. News with some of the articles that have been recently published.

Anthony of UT 3:25PM January 15, 2010

Mr College Admisnitrator(I seriously dount you are),
You're seriously out of touch w/reality. I have two children in a state colleges currently and contrary to your irrational thought we DID shop around and couldn't find another school in state that was less expensive...and the state school they attend is absurdly expensive! Worse still, the state continues to raise costs 7.5 to 12% every year when nothing else, especially my income, is going up...much less by 7.5% to 12% Most college boards, much less administrations have shown a serious disconnect with the real world.
I challenge you to come town from your Ivory Towers and try to live in the real world that the majority of people do...my guess is you'd have an altogether different perspective from a working man's point of few in very short order

Al of WI 3:35PM January 11, 2010

We're about the same age...both w/Master's but to address your question of whether the youth of today can actually afford their overly expensive college educations...do you realize that the greatest number of bankruptcies currently declared is amongest the 23 to 29 year olds...who cannot get the careers they were trained for and therefore cannot pay off their college expense obligations?

Al of WI 3:26PM January 11, 2010

I'm 67 and have a master's degree. When I look at the cost of college today, I wonder how students afford it. Maybe they don't.
It would be good for everyone if we could control the costs associated with attending college. I'm not going to pretend I have a solution. But, I think I do recognize a problem.
As a society, we have to carefully weigh the cost - benefit analysis of attending college. If our grads are burdened with years of debt payment and are unable to earn enough money to justify that debt assumption, then our society has a problem.
I also fear our current economic situation will devastate many college students when they find no jobs upon graduation. I encountered that situation in 1970 and it took 20 years to recover.

Jim in Seattle of WA 2:50PM January 10, 2010

Dartmouth college students can has single room with large window.Also 2 or 3 or 4 students can share big common room with bath room. price is cheap. about $7500/one year.

Linda Zhang of CA 5:20PM January 08, 2010

I think schools should have expensive hotel style options, and cheap bare-bones old style dorm options. This way, students can pick what best fits their needs and budget. Of course, we will never see this because universities make more money off of expensive housing. It's a shame state schools have become so profit driven---however I blame state budget cuts for making them this way.

Chris of NJ 6:03PM January 05, 2010

This article is comparing across real estate markets; essentially what it is saying is that real estate in big cities in more expensive than suburban and rural areas. Thank you US News, that was something we would have never figured out.
If you want to know which school are chargin the most for housing, a more valid and usefull comparision would be the cost of room and board at School X versus the cost of surrounding apartments.
So for example, I know Carnegie Mellon charges about $7500 per (academic) year for housing when nearby apartments / houses are readily available for $300 - $400 per month. Compare this to some schools in NYC where university housing is significantly cheaper than off-campus housing. Which school's housing is more "pricey"? I would say CMU.
You could also bring in quality of dorms as a cost adjustor.

K. Shaban of NY 5:16PM January 05, 2010