Dive Brief:

• The college with the most expensive room and board in the U.S. is the New York School of Interior Design at $21,000 per year, according to eCollegeFinder.
• On a list of the four-year colleges with the most expensive room and board in each state, Carroll College in Montana has the lowest price tag: $8,301 per year.
• After the New York School of Interior Design, the top five most expensive schools for room and board by state are the Boston Conservatory in Massachusetts at $17,195, the University of California-Berkeley at $15,482, Drexel University in Pennsylvania at $14,415, and the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, at $14,326.

Dive Insight:

Considering the cost of Manhattan real estate, the School of Interior Design may be offering a bargain. The eCollegeFinder lists were created using data from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, screening for schools that offer four-year degrees with on-campus housing. Rounding out the top 10 are Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.