Private, not for profit
Where the published price and the price people actually pay diverge most, because institutional aid does most of the work.
- $1,172Institutions of this kind on this site
- $48,301Median published cost of attendance, a year
- $22,423Median net price for students receiving federal aid
- $34,600Median in-state tuition and fees
- $24,941Median debt of borrowers who completed
- $53,565Median earnings ten years after entry
A published cost near $70,000 and a net price near $25,000 is an ordinary pattern here rather than an exceptional one. Comparing sticker prices across sectors is the single most misleading thing a family can do.
That discount is institutional aid, and it is decided by the institution rather than by any formula you can look up. It varies by applicant, by year, and by how much the institution wants a given student.
What these medians are
Medians across the $1,172 institutions of this kind in the committed snapshot, computed here rather than published by anybody. A median is used rather than a mean because a handful of very expensive institutions pull an average somewhere no real student pays.
The net price figure is the Department's, and it covers first-time, full-time undergraduates receiving federal aid only. It is not the average across everybody.
Sources
- College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data, U.S. Department of Education. Figures describe 2025-26. Collected automatically on , so nobody checked this row by hand.