From http://www.collegemeasures.org/4-year_colleges/college-performance-rank/# , one can list college by cost per student.
The top 10, excluding LSU Health Sciences Shreveport ($86,436):
School Cost per student Tuition Yale 157659 45800 Caltech 120792 45390 WUStL 119969 48093 Johns Hopkins 115179 48710 Columbia (NY) 96118 53000 Stanford 95430 45729 Chicago 92382 50193 US Naval Academy 90237 0 Harvard 84218 47074 Vanderbilt 81629 43260
The top 10 public, excluding LSU Health Sciences Shreveport ($86,436):
School Cost per student Tuition / OOS US Naval Academy 90237 0 US Coast Guard Academy 71567 0 US Military Academy 66775 0 US Air Force Academy 66599 0 UCLA 51004 12816 39498 US Merchant Marine Acad 49403 1107 Penn State 38739 17514 31345 Washington 35060 11839 34143 California Maritime 34174 5472 16632 North Carolina 33862 8591 33673
The top 10 state flagships:
School Cost per student Tuition / OOS Penn State 38739 17514 31345 Washington 35060 11839 34143 North Carolina 33862 8591 33673 Michigan 31219 13528 43148 (LD LS&A) 18780 48746 (UD CoE) Connecticut 30931 10524 32066 UC Berkeley 27427 13518 40200 Virginia 24478 14468 43082 Ohio State 24090 10037 27365 Alaska - Fairbanks 23849 6814 21353 Minnesota 23743 13790 22210
Notes:
Some of the state flagships (Penn State, Washington, North Carolina, Alaska, Minnesota) appear to subsidize non-resident list-price students, rather than making a profit on them. The amount of apparent subsidy to students paying list price is far greater at the highest spending private schools, though. The US government spends a lot educating future military officers at the academies; ROTC scholarships look like a bargain in comparison.
LSU Health Sciences Shreveport is mostly a medical campus with a few undergraduate programs, which is presumably why it has such high costs. UCLA may be accounting its medical school costs in a way that makes its costs appear much higher than those of other UCs. It is possible that some of the high cost privates' costs are inflated similarly.
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