Looking Beyond the Rankings

sadilly
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:54:16 +0000

This week lists the top schools by average instructional expenses. This number is calculated differently according to the accounting standards used (FASB/GASB) which may explain some of the differences between public and private schools.

Private

Name                State   Full-   4/5 yr  Instruction per Student
                    time    Grad
                    Under   Rate
                    -grads
Yeshiva University      NY  2759    58  38288
Case Western Reserve University OH  4260    63  32843
Boston University       MA  16634   79  26324
Sweet Briar College     VA  695 61  23568
Sarah Lawrence College      NY  1374    69  19913
Rose-Hulman Inst of Technology  IN  2114    66  19892
Earlham College         IN  1071    62  19872
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA  3787    74  19756
Beloit College          WI  1261    70  19072
Furman University       SC  2623    79  18434
DePauw University       IN  2307    74  18068
Bennington College      VT  684 59  18029
Denison University      OH  2308    84  17493
Saint Louis University      MO  7354    60  17380
Wheaton College         MA  1613    77  17302
University of Puget Sound   WA  2555    69  16964
Trinity University      TX  2252    71  16721
Creighton University        NE  3813    68  16586
Kalamazoo College       MI  1366    63  16260
Mills College           CA  894 52  15968
Whitman College         WA  1509    80  15963
Goucher College         MD  1446    57  15675
Randolph College        VA  609 53  15622
Centre College          KY  1343    87  15542
Ringling Coll of Art and Design FL  1313    54  15461
Catholic University of America  DC  3422    62  15363
Wabash College          IN  904 69  15327
St Olaf College         MN  3128    83  15322
Lawrence University     WI  1473    54  15287
Illinois Wesleyan University    IL  2008    78  15204
Cleveland Institute of Art  OH  550 52  15202

Public

Name                    State   Full-   4/5 yr  Instruction per Student
                        time    Grad
                        Under   Rate
                        -grads
University of Illinois at Chicago   IL  15381   53  23413
University of Washington-Seattle Campus WA  26228   77  22363
The University of Tennessee     TN  19591   62  19826
Pennsylvania State University       PA  37917   84  18550
Rutgers University-New Brunswick    NJ  30038   76  17179
University of Delaware          DE  16642   78  15998
University of Pittsburgh        PA  17256   77  15987
Purdue University-Main Campus       IN  29360   65  15392
SUNY Coll of Envir Science and Forestry NY  1661    64  15377
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities MN  29125   69  15319
University of Vermont           VT  9956    74  15279
University of Kansas            KS  17130   58  14584
University of Iowa          IA  19639   68  14430
Michigan State University       MI  34196   75  14325
California Maritime Academy     CA  951 52  14284
University at Buffalo           NY  17763   65  14237
St Mary's College of Maryland       MD  1837    80  13849
University of Wisconsin-Madison     WI  28167   79  13712
Ohio State University-Main Campus   OH  38884   79  13313
Texas A & M University-College Station  TX  36219   76  13163
Rowan University            NJ  9254    69  13113
Georgia Institute of Technology     GA  13272   72  13076
Missouri University of Sci and Tech MO  5260    58  13055
SUNY at Albany              NY  12064   63  12907
Vermont Technical College       VT  1143    52  12867
University of Colorado Boulder      CO  23662   63  12817
University of Massachusetts Amherst MA  20306   68  12764
Indiana University-Bloomington      IN  30949   72  12518
Temple University           PA  24382   60  12487
North Carolina State Univ at Raleigh    NC  21821   66  12479
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign    IL  31118   82  12085
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus    OK  18111   61  12005