America's Most Expensive Colleges
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New facilities and competition for top professors have costs soaring vastly higher than inflation.
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Authors Kalman Chany and Mark Kantrowitz join Michelle Singletary for a discussion about how to pay for college.
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Randolph-Macon Womanâs College in Lynchburg, Va., is exploring the possibility of sharing its most valuable asset: a world-class collection of American art.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy   are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790   billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,   according to a government study released on Friday.
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Several schools have sharply increased tuition to match colleges they consider their rivals, while also providing more financial assistance.
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Yale University said Monday it is joining an expanding group of elite colleges under pressure from parents, lawmakers and alumni to make top schools more affordable to middle-class and upper middle-class families.
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Top universities are accused of "brow-beating" students into accepting places with cash inducements.
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Spending by contestants and  supporters in the U.S. elections this year will be nearly $4  billion, the highest ever, a study released on Thursday said.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy  are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790  billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,  according to a government study released on Friday.
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As tuition has soared past the limits on federal aid, more students are relying on barely regulated private loans.
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One student loan company took university financial aid directors on a junket to Disney World. Another paid $500 to be placed on a school's list of recommended lenders. And others showered tequila, wine and golf outings on college aid officers.
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Here's what one university library found when they compared the hardware and software costs.
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When my 17-year-old son said he might want to apply to colleges on the West Coast, my wife had a flashback. When she was thinking about schools in the fall of 1970, she considered Stanford. Her father told her to forget it. His rationale: the cost of flying coast-to-coast, on top of tuition costs, would have made Stanford prohibitively expensive.
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The price of college again rose faster than the inflation rate this year, climbing 6.6 percent at four-year public schools and outstripping increases in the financial aid that lowers what most students actually pay.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology overtook Yale University to record the best return last year among US schools with the 25 largest endowments, three years after bad bets on technology helped drain $1.4 billion from its fund.
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Yale University is slashing the cost of tuition by as much as 50 percent, joining a list of elite schools seeking to make college more affordable for lower-, middle- and upper-middle-income families, officials said yesterday.
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Decisions by Harvard, Yale and other elite schools to make college more affordable to a larger pool of applicants might have the unintended consequence of harming less wealthy institutions and the students who attend them, some educators and financial aid experts say.