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West Lafayette, Indiana

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Compare with Indiana Public Colleges

I
Indiana University Bloomington

$594 higher in-state tuition
30% higher acceptance rate


B
Ball State University

$1,030 lower in-state tuition
22% higher acceptance rate


I
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

$477 lower in-state tuition
31% higher acceptance rate


S
University of Southern Indiana

$967 lower in-state tuition
45% higher acceptance rate


I
Indiana University East

$2,226 lower in-state tuition
21% higher acceptance rate


Compare with Indiana Private Colleges

N
University of Notre Dame

$52,468 higher in-state tuition
38% lower acceptance rate


B
Butler University

$35,272 higher in-state tuition
36% higher acceptance rate


D
DePauw University

$46,312 higher in-state tuition
4% higher acceptance rate


R
Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

$43,280 higher in-state tuition
23% higher acceptance rate


T
Taylor University

$28,422 higher in-state tuition
26% higher acceptance rate


E
Earlham College

$41,252 higher in-state tuition
24% higher acceptance rate


Compare with Regional Public Colleges

M
University of Michigan

$7,178 higher in-state tuition
32% lower acceptance rate


S
Michigan State University

$5,930 higher in-state tuition
34% higher acceptance rate


O
Ohio State University

$2,108 higher in-state tuition
1% higher acceptance rate


W
University of Wisconsin Madison

$74 lower in-state tuition
7% lower acceptance rate


T
The University of Tennessee

$1,614 higher in-state tuition
4% lower acceptance rate


M
Miami University

$4,917 higher in-state tuition
32% higher acceptance rate


I
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

$2,994 higher in-state tuition
6% lower acceptance rate


I
University of Illinois at Chicago

$1,460 higher in-state tuition
29% higher acceptance rate


I
University of Iowa

$702 lower in-state tuition
35% higher acceptance rate


C
University of Cincinnati Main Campus

$2,174 higher in-state tuition
38% higher acceptance rate


M
University of Missouri Columbia

$3,290 higher in-state tuition
27% higher acceptance rate


M
Missouri University of Science and Technology

$3,290 higher in-state tuition
23% higher acceptance rate


P
Penn State Beaver

$4,106 higher in-state tuition
42% higher acceptance rate


Compare with Regional Private Colleges

V
Vanderbilt University

$51,900 higher in-state tuition
44% lower acceptance rate


C
University of Chicago

$54,083 higher in-state tuition
45% lower acceptance rate


N
Northwestern University

$55,169 higher in-state tuition
43% lower acceptance rate


L
Loyola University Chicago

$40,552 higher in-state tuition
31% higher acceptance rate


D
DePaul University

$33,947 higher in-state tuition
24% higher acceptance rate


B
Belmont University

$29,682 higher in-state tuition
46% higher acceptance rate


W
Washington University in St Louis

$52,032 higher in-state tuition
38% lower acceptance rate


D
University of Dayton

$37,882 higher in-state tuition
12% higher acceptance rate


M
Marquette University

$37,972 higher in-state tuition
37% higher acceptance rate


W
Wheaton College

$33,952 higher in-state tuition
40% higher acceptance rate


C
Case Western Reserve University

$54,382 higher in-state tuition
21% lower acceptance rate


O
Oberlin College

$53,982 higher in-state tuition
17% lower acceptance rate


F
Fisk University

$12,602 higher in-state tuition
8% higher acceptance rate


D
Denison University

$54,282 higher in-state tuition
33% lower acceptance rate


G
Grinnell College

$54,624 higher in-state tuition
37% lower acceptance rate


K
Kenyon College

$59,312 higher in-state tuition
19% lower acceptance rate


S
Saint Louis University Main Campus

$42,542 higher in-state tuition
31% higher acceptance rate


I
Illinois Institute of Technology

$39,925 higher in-state tuition
5% higher acceptance rate


L
Lipscomb University

$26,130 higher in-state tuition
17% higher acceptance rate


J
John Carroll University

$37,582 higher in-state tuition
31% higher acceptance rate


C
Calvin University

$28,652 higher in-state tuition
21% higher acceptance rate


W
The College of Wooster

$49,332 higher in-state tuition
4% higher acceptance rate


M
Milwaukee School of Engineering

$36,667 higher in-state tuition
10% higher acceptance rate


K
Kalamazoo College

$48,467 higher in-state tuition
26% higher acceptance rate


O
Ohio Northern University

$26,782 higher in-state tuition
23% higher acceptance rate


B
Beloit College

$48,324 higher in-state tuition
7% higher acceptance rate


I
Illinois Wesleyan University

$45,782 higher in-state tuition
5% lower acceptance rate


C
Cedarville University

$26,160 higher in-state tuition
13% higher acceptance rate


A
Andrews University

$22,682 higher in-state tuition
37% higher acceptance rate


C
Centre College

$40,532 higher in-state tuition
4% higher acceptance rate


O
Ohio Wesleyan University

$42,053 higher in-state tuition
1% higher acceptance rate


L
Lake Forest College

$43,582 higher in-state tuition
9% higher acceptance rate


U
Union University

$27,282 higher in-state tuition
3% lower acceptance rate


L
Lawrence University

$45,431 higher in-state tuition
13% higher acceptance rate


V
Viterbo University

$21,882 higher in-state tuition
23% higher acceptance rate


A
Asbury University

$23,354 higher in-state tuition
14% higher acceptance rate


A
Aquinas College

$11,632 higher in-state tuition
10% lower acceptance rate


K
Knox College

$45,050 higher in-state tuition
21% higher acceptance rate


B
Berea College

$38,882 higher in-state tuition
17% lower acceptance rate


H
Hillsdale College

$21,062 higher in-state tuition
29% lower acceptance rate


Compare with National Colleges

F
University of Florida

$5,241 lower in-state tuition
26% lower acceptance rate


T
The University of Texas at Austin

$1,960 higher in-state tuition
21% lower acceptance rate


C
University of California Los Angeles

$2,116 higher in-state tuition
41% lower acceptance rate


P
Penn State Main Campus

$9,954 higher in-state tuition
4% higher acceptance rate


N
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

$2,699 lower in-state tuition
31% lower acceptance rate


V
Virginia Tech

$2,980 higher in-state tuition
7% higher acceptance rate


A
The University of Alabama

$1,382 higher in-state tuition
26% higher acceptance rate


C
University of California Irvine

$2,116 higher in-state tuition
24% lower acceptance rate


M
University of Maryland College Park

$171 higher in-state tuition
5% lower acceptance rate


W
University of Washington Seattle Campus

$1,806 higher in-state tuition
7% lower acceptance rate


N
North Carolina State University at Raleigh

$3,183 lower in-state tuition
10% lower acceptance rate


C
University of California Berkeley

$2,116 higher in-state tuition
38% lower acceptance rate


C
University of California Santa Barbara

$2,116 higher in-state tuition
22% lower acceptance rate


V
University of Virginia Main Campus

$7,772 higher in-state tuition
33% lower acceptance rate


A
University of Arizona

$2,153 higher in-state tuition
36% higher acceptance rate


C
University of Colorado Boulder

$5,066 higher in-state tuition
33% higher acceptance rate


C
University of California Davis

$2,116 higher in-state tuition
8% lower acceptance rate


G
Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus

$540 higher in-state tuition
34% lower acceptance rate


C
University of California San Diego

$2,116 higher in-state tuition
25% lower acceptance rate


S
Stony Brook University

$2,648 lower in-state tuition
1% lower acceptance rate


B
SUNY at Binghamton

$2,648 lower in-state tuition
12% lower acceptance rate


M
University of Massachusetts Amherst

$6,873 higher in-state tuition
8% higher acceptance rate


P
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus

$10,436 higher in-state tuition
0% higher acceptance rate


C
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

$3,976 lower in-state tuition
20% lower acceptance rate


T
The University of Texas at Dallas

$4,846 higher in-state tuition
15% higher acceptance rate


R
Rutgers University New Brunswick

$3,956 higher in-state tuition
15% higher acceptance rate


M
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

$4,778 higher in-state tuition
27% higher acceptance rate


H
CUNY Hunter College

$2,788 lower in-state tuition
4% higher acceptance rate


C
University of Connecticut

$6,614 higher in-state tuition
4% higher acceptance rate


M
Mississippi State University

$53 lower in-state tuition
26% higher acceptance rate


C
CUNY City College

$2,788 lower in-state tuition
8% higher acceptance rate


B
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

$2,788 lower in-state tuition
0% higher acceptance rate


A
University of Alabama at Birmingham

$886 lower in-state tuition
38% higher acceptance rate