The Most Expensive College in Every State

The New England Conservatory of Music is one of six four-year colleges in Massachusetts with annual net prices — the annual cost of tuition, books, room and board, minus any financial aid — of over $40,000.

Students can attend the conservatory to major in music performance in musical sections like brass, strings, woodwind, vocal, piano, percussion, and more. They can also study music theory, conducting, and composition.

Kettering University is a private school in Flint, Michigan, that specializes in STEM and business degrees. It ranks as the most expensive institution in the state, with an annual net price of over $39,000 for students who receive some form of financial aid — which is approximately 97% of them.

Among the more than 40 qualifying four-year colleges in Michigan, Kettering enrollees have among the best standardized test scores. The typical student scores 1280 on the combined math and reading SAT tests and 28 on the composite ACT.

In addition to being the most expensive college in Minnesota, Carleton College is also the most difficult to get into by a significant margin. Carleton only accepts 19.1% of applicants. The next closest school has an acceptance rate of over 30%. Carleton College students performed better on standardized tests than students of any other Minnesota college, with the typical student scoring a combined 1440 on the math and reading SAT tests and a composite 33 on the ACT.

Private liberal arts school Millsaps College, located in Jackson, is the most expensive school in Mississippi. Nearly all Millsaps College students, 99.0%, receive financial aid, and for those students who receive aid, the annual net price — the annual cost of tuition, books, room and board, minus any financial aid — is nearly $24,500.

Millsaps College is relatively small, with fewer than 800 enrolled undergraduate students for the 2019-2020 school year.

Conception Seminary College is a men’s only liberal arts school in northwestern Missouri that aims to prepare students for the priesthood. All students receive some sort of financial aid, though even after financial aid, the annual net price is over $35,000.

The school is one of the smallest on this list, and indeed in the entire country, with just 47 enrolled undergraduate students.