Tuition fees of the 50 best universities in the US

The top 50 universities in the US are mostly private, with tuition ranging from $21,700 to $68,200 per year.

US News 2024 College Rankings The rankings released late last year showed that the top 10 has been consistent over the years, with five of the eight Ivy League representatives. Princeton University has led for 13 consecutive years.

In the top 20, 18/20 representatives are private schools. Two schools, the University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles, are tied at 15th place, the highest among public schools.

Tuition fees range from $21,700 to $68,200 per year for international students. Florida State University (ranked 53rd) has the lowest tuition fees, while Brown University (ranked 9th) and Southern California (ranked 28th) have the highest tuition fees. The Ivy League school with the cheapest tuition is Harvard University, at over $59,000 per year.

However, this is only tuition. International students need to pay many other expenses. For example, when adding housing, food, books and living expenses, the total amount of money an international student at Harvard has to pay is up to 95,000 USD (2.3 billion VND).

Tuition fees for the 50 best universities in the US in 2024, applicable to international students, are as follows:

Ranking	School name	Tuition (USD/year)
1	Princeton University (Yvy League)	59,710
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	60,156
3	Harvard University (Yvy League)	59,076
=3	Stanford University	62,484
5	Yale University (Yvy League)	64,700
6	University of Pennsylvania (Yvy League)	66,104
7	California Technology Jobs	63,255
=7	Duke University	66,172
9	Brown University (Yvy League)	68,230
=9	Johns Hopkins University	63,340
=9	Northwestern University	65,997
12	Columbia University (Yvy League)	65,524
=12	Cornell University (Yvy League)	66,014
=12	University of Chicago	65,619
15	University of California, Berkeley	48,465
=15	University of California, LA	46,326
17	Rice University	58,128
18	Dartmouth College (Yvy League)	65,511
=18	Vanderbilt University	63,946
20	University of Notre Dame	62,693
21	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	57,273
22	Georgetown University	65,082
=22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	39,338
24	Carnegie Mellon University	63,829
=24	Emory University	60,774
=24	University of Virginia	58,950
=24	Washington University, St. Louis	62,982
28	University of California, Davis	46,043
=28	University of California, San Diego	48,630
=28	University of Florida	28,658
=28	University of Southern California	68,237
32	University of Texas, Austin	41,070
33	Georgia Institute of Technology	32,876
=33	University of California, Irvine	47,759
35	New York University	60,438
=35	University of California, Santa Barbara	45,658
=35	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	36,068
=35	University of Wisconsin, Madison	40,603
39	Boston College	67,680
40	Rutgers University, New Brunswick	36,001
=40	Tufts University	67,844
=40	University of Washington	41,997
43	Boston University	65,168
=43	Ohio State University	36,722
=43	Purdue University, Main Campus	28,794
46	University of Maryland, College Park	40,306
47	Lehigh University	62,180
=47	Texas A&M University	40,607
=47	University of Georgia	30,220
=47	University of Rochester	64,384
=47	Virginia Tech University	36,090
=47	Wake Forest University	64,758
53	Case Western Reserve University	62,234
=53	Florida State University	21,683
=53	Northeastern University	63,141
=53	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	36,402
=53	William & Mary	48,841

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