<p>A new College Affordability Index is available from IPEDS based on the increase in cost of tuition and fees compared with the increase in CPI (Consumer Price Index) during a similar period of time. An index over two indicates a lack of affordability. There is also an affordability risk indicator: one means there is a “risk”.</p>
<p>I don’t really understand it very well but it sounds intriguing. Maybe some of the economists out there can enlighten me. It seems like privates are at a disadvantage because their tuition and fees are actually discounted by scholarships and grants. The tuition and fees at private colleges greatly overstates the actual cost of attendance after financial aid.</p>
<p>College Affordability Index: Percentage change in the tuition and fees charged a full-time, first-time undergraduate between the first and last of the three most recent academic years DIVIDED BY the percentage change in the CPI (all urban consumers-current series) from July of the first academic year to July of the third academic year.</p>
<p>College Affordability Risk Indicator: An institution is determined to be NOT at risk if:
-the CAI is less than or equal to 2
-or the CAI exceeds 2 but by a dollar amount less than $500
-or the tuition and fees charged a full-time first-time undergraduate student is within the least costly quartile of institutions within each sector</p>
<p>I think “sector” refers to Carnegie Classification…not sure.</p>
<p>sorted by affordability index
school, college affordability index, college affordability risk indicator</p>
<p>Miami University-Oxford 25.14 1
The University of Texas at Austin 10.63 1
University of Richmond 6.35 1
Hendrix College 6.14 1
University of Colorado at Boulder 5.38 1
University of California-Davis 4.38 1
Clemson University 4.34 1
Texas A & M University 4.27 1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 4.03 1
George Washington University 3.86 1
University of California-Santa Barbara 3.85 1
University of California-Berkeley 3.84 1
St Mary’s College of Maryland 3.83 1
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 3.73 1
Rhodes College 3.71 1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3.7 1
Washington and Lee University 3.67 1
University of California-Los Angeles 3.64 1
University of California-Santa Cruz 3.64 1
Mills College 3.63 1
University of Wisconsin-Madison 3.56 1
Michigan State University 3.5 1
Ohio State University-Main Campus 3.44 1
University of California-San Diego 3.42 0
University of California-Riverside 3.41 0
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 3.38 1
The University of Tennessee 3.37 0
College of William and Mary 3.35 1
Rice University 3.31 1
University of California-Irvine 3.3 0
University of Virginia-Main Campus 3.18 0
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 2.97 1
Yeshiva University 2.85 1
Case Western Reserve University 2.85 1
Wofford College 2.73 1
Bennington College 2.67 1
Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway 2.61 0
Stevens Institute of Technology 2.61 1
Scripps College 2.6 1
Vassar College 2.59 1
University of Connecticut 2.58 0
Agnes Scott College 2.57 1
Boston College 2.57 1
Southwestern University 2.57 1
Furman University 2.56 1
University of Maryland-College Park 2.51 0
Fordham University 2.51 1
Barnard College 2.5 1
Presbyterian College 2.49 1
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 2.48 0
Muhlenberg College 2.45 1
Denison University 2.44 1
Gustavus Adolphus College 2.38 1
Baylor University 2.36 0
Lehigh University 2.33 1
Carleton College 2.31 1
Ursinus College 2.3 1
University of Notre Dame 2.28 0
Virginia Military Institute 2.28 0
University of Denver 2.27 0
MacAlester College 2.27 0
Austin College 2.27 0
Wheaton College 2.25 0
St Lawrence University 2.25 0
Wake Forest University 2.25 0
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 2.24 0
Southern Methodist University 2.23 0
Juniata College 2.18 0
Georgetown University 2.16 0
University of Georgia 2.16 0
Saint Johns University 2.16 0
College of Saint Benedict 2.14 0
University of North Carolina System Office 2.12 0
California Institute of Technology 2.12 0
Centre College 2.12 0
University of Missouri-Columbia 2.11 0
Bucknell University 2.11 0
Auburn University Main Campus 2.1 0
Hobart William Smith Colleges 2.09 0
University of Puget Sound 2.08 0
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 2.07 0
Spelman College 2.06 0
Bard College 2.04 0
The College of Wooster 2.04 0
American University 2.03 0
Earlham College 2.03 0
Franklin and Marshall College 2.03 0
University of Delaware 2.02 0
Augustana College 2.02 0
Marquette University 2.02 0
Illinois Wesleyan University 2.01 0
Goucher College 2.01 0
Syracuse University 2 0
University of Iowa 1.98 0
Millsaps College 1.98 0
Reed College 1.98 0
Birmingham Southern College 1.97 0
Wellesley College 1.97 0
Williams College 1.97 0
Saint Louis University-Main Campus 1.97 0
University of Miami 1.96 0
Bates College 1.96 0
College of the Holy Cross 1.96 0
Dickinson College 1.96 0
Sewanee: The University of the South 1.96 0
Pepperdine University 1.94 0
Hope College 1.94 0
Drew University 1.94 0
Iowa State University 1.93 0
St. Olaf College 1.93 0
Kalamazoo College 1.91 0
Tulane University of Louisiana 1.9 0
Kenyon College 1.9 0
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1.89 0
Gettysburg College 1.89 0
Whitman College 1.89 0
Sweet Briar College 1.87 0
Smith College 1.86 0
Columbia University in the City of New York 1.86 0
Willamette University 1.86 0
New College of Florida 1.86 0
University of Southern California 1.85 0
Emory University 1.85 0
Hollins University 1.84 0
Northwestern University 1.83 0
Vanderbilt University 1.83 0
University of Florida 1.81 0
Ohio Wesleyan University 1.81 0
Lawrence University 1.81 0
Trinity College 1.8 0
Claremont McKenna College 1.79 0
Colby College 1.79 0
Hamilton College 1.79 0
New York University 1.79 0
Mount Holyoke College 1.78 0
Occidental College 1.73 0
Pitzer College 1.73 0
Harvey Mudd College 1.72 0
Connecticut College 1.72 0
Yale University 1.72 0
Thomas Aquinas College 1.71 0
Wheaton College 1.71 0
Albion College 1.71 0
Davidson College 1.71 0
Boston University 1.69 0
University of Rochester 1.69 0
Grinnell College 1.68 0
Wells College 1.68 0
Brown University 1.68 0
Harvard University 1.67 0
Sarah Lawrence College 1.67 0
Allegheny College 1.67 0
University of Chicago 1.66 0
University of Pennsylvania 1.66 0
Washington University in St Louis 1.65 0
Wabash College 1.64 0
Oberlin College 1.64 0
Beloit College 1.64 0
Princeton University 1.63 0
Pomona College 1.63 0
Colorado College 1.63 0
Skidmore College 1.63 0
Purdue University-Main Campus 1.63 0
Randolph-Macon College 1.62 0
Johns Hopkins University 1.61 0
Tufts University 1.61 0
Union College 1.6 0
Wesleyan University 1.59 0
Haverford College 1.59 0
Colgate University 1.57 0
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1.56 0
Dartmouth College 1.55 0
Lafayette College 1.55 0
Clark University 1.54 0
Hanover College 1.53 0
Bowdoin College 1.52 0
Cornell University 1.51 0
Swarthmore College 1.51 0
Stanford University 1.48 0
Indiana University-Bloomington 1.46 0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1.46 0
Amherst College 1.43 0
Carnegie Mellon University 1.43 0
Brandeis University 1.41 0
DePauw University 1.4 0
Knox College 1.32 0
Brigham Young University 1.32 0
Bryn Mawr College 1.19 0
Duke University 1.13 0
Middlebury College 0.69 0
SUNY at Binghamton 0.42 0</p>