The average cost of attendance (which includes tuition, fees, room and board) in public four-year in-state higher education institutions in the United States was 24,920 U.S. dollars in the academic year of 2024/25. The total cost was lowest for public, two-year in-district institutions in that academic year, at 14,440 U.S. dollars.

The average annual undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board for full-time students attending four-year universities in the United States has increased significantly since 1990, reaching 30,884 U.S. dollars by the academic year of 2022/23. In comparison, the average annual undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board to attend a four-year university in 1990/91 was 17,011 U.S. dollars.

In 2024/25, Princeton University, ranked as the best university in the United States, had tuition and fees for full-time students of 62,400 U.S. dollars. The second ranked university in the U.S., the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), had tuition and fees of 62,396 U.S. dollars.

From the academic year 2000/01 to 2022/23, the average cost of tuition and required fees at all degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States has increased from 5,377 U.S. dollars to 14,688 U.S. dollars. This includes all four-year and two-year universities, both private and public.

The average annual fee for tuition and required services at public higher education institutions in the United States was 7,998 U.S. dollars in 2023. This figure was significantly higher at private higher education institutions, which stood at 34,923 U.S. dollars.

For the school year 2023-24, in-state students at the University of Michigan paid 17,230 U.S. dollars in tuition and fees. In comparison, out-of-state students paid 58,070 U.S. dollars in tuition and fees in that same year.

This statistic shows the average cost for tuition and other fees per year when studying in-state or in-district at universities in the United States in the academic year of 2018/19. Studying in the District of Columbia was the most expensive, with tuition and fees totaling on average 44,723 U.S. dollars.

On average across all public institutions, tuition costs were approximately 7,998 U.S. dollars in the academic year of 2022/2023 in the United States. The average student loan amount granted for public institutions was 7,023 U.S. dollars.

This statistic shows the average tuition and fees required for different professional degrees in the United States as of the 2008/09 academic year when studying at either a private or public university. At a private university in the United States it will cost on average 54,774 U.S. dollars to study dentistry.

In the Midwest of the United States, the average amount charged in tuition fees at public four-year colleges was 11,740 U.S. dollars, as compared to 9,780 U.S. dollars in the South. Tuition and fees was highest in New England, at 14,900 U.S. dollars.

In 2024, Connecticut had the highest average annual tuition for private K-12 schools in the United States, averaging 29,133 U.S. dollars for each year of attendance. The District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine rounded out the top five states with the highest average annual private school tuition in that year.

In the academic year 2023/24, there were 331,602 international students from India studying in the United States. International students The majority of international students studying in the United States are originally from India and China, totaling 331,602 students and 277,398 students respectively in the 2023/24 school year. In 2022/23, there were 467,027 international graduate students , which accounted for over one third of the international students in the country. Typically, engineering and math & computer science programs were among the most common fields of study for these students. The United States is home to many world-renowned schools, most notably, the Ivy League Colleges which provide education that is sought after by both foreign and local students. International students and college Foreign students in the United States pay some of the highest fees in the United States, with an average of 24,914 U.S. dollars. American students attending a college in New England paid an average of 14,900 U.S. dollars for tuition alone and there were about 79,751 international students in Massachusetts . Among high-income families, U.S. students paid an average of 34,700 U.S. dollars for college, whereas the average for all U.S. families reached only 28,026 U.S. dollars. Typically, 40 percent of families paid for college tuition through parent income and savings, while 29 percent relied on grants and scholarships.

In the academic year of 2024/2025, tuition at Columbia University cost 71,845 U.S. dollars, including mandatory fees, while room and board amounted to 17,580 U.S. dollars, making it the most expensive school in the Ivy League. Brown University followed closely behind, with tuition and mandatory fees of 71,412 U.S. dollars and room and board of 17,444 U.S. dollars.

Lithuania had the highest tuition fees of the OECD countries in 2022, charging an average of over 13,000 U.S. dollars per national student at the master's level. The United States followed behind with 12,600 U.S. dollars per student. The Nordic countries as well as Estonia had no tuition fees.

At private nonprofit 2-year institutions in the academic year of 2021/22, tuition costs totaled on average 18,480 U.S. dollars and students borrowed, on average, 4,171 U.S. dollars in student loans. The average tuition cost for 2-year institutions was lowest for public 2-year institutions, at 3,564 U.S. dollars.

This statistic shows the average cost for room and board per year at U.S. universities from the 2000/01 academic year to 2018/19. Costs have steadily been increasing since year 2000 and in 2018/19 had reached 11,216 U.S. dollars per year.

For the 2020-21 academic year, annual expenses for tuition, room, fees, and board for students at private institutions in the state of Massachusetts stood at 65,784 U.S. dollars, making it the most expensive state for private colleges in the U.S. The average cost for 4-year, private institutions in the United States stood at 46,313 U.S. dollars in that year.

In 2023, the top ranked part-time MBA program was offered at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. While part-time annual tuition costs were not posted by the Haas School of Business, the annual tuition for full-time students totaled 67,424 U.S. dollars.

For the school year 2024-25, in-state students at public four-year institutions in Florida paid an average of 6,360 U.S. dollars. In comparison, out-of-state students in Florida paid an average of 21,690 U.S. dollars in tuition and fees.

In the fiscal year 2021, students in Japan paid an average of around 931 thousand Japanese yen for tuition fees and about 246 thousand yen for entrance fees to be enrolled at private universities. The first-year students at private universities spent around 360 thousand yen more on average compared to those at national universities.