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Harvard College launched a net price calculator into which applicants and their families can enter their financial data to estimate the net price they will be expected to pay for a year at Harvard. Please use the calculator to estimate the net cost of attendance. The total 2015-2016 cost of attending Harvard College without financial aid is $45,278 for tuition and $60,659 for tuition, room, board and fees combined.
It's not just the tuition costs at elite universities like Harvard that are outpacing the government's Consumer Price Index. The average cost of tuition and fees a t a private, non-profit, four-year university this school year was $31,231 âup sharply from $1,832 in 1971-1972 (in current dollars) .At public, four-year schools, tuition and fees cost about $9,139 this year.his fall, Harvard's annual tuition and fees (not including room and board) will set you back $45,278, more than 17 times the 1971-72 cost. If annual increases had simply tracked the inflation rate since 1971, next year's tuition would be to just $15,189.