This statistic shows the overall results of a survey asking recruiters to list the best universities in the United States with regards to the quality of the graduates in 2010. In-state and out-of-state tuition fees are also shown for each university. The university rated first by recruiters in 2010 was Pennsylvania State University which has an out-of-state tuition fee of 27,114 U.S. dollars.
Tuition fees of the top U.S. Universities, ranked by recruiters by quality of graduates in 2010
(in U.S. dollars)
Characteristic
Instate Tuition fee
Out-of-State Tuition fee
(10) Carnegie Mellon University
42,136
42,136
(14) Cornell University
39,450
39,450
(6) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
11,837
36,001
(15) University of California - Berkeley
12,462
35,341
(19) University of Virginia
10,836
33,782
(17) University of California, Los Angeles
10,781
33,660
(3) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
18,386
32,528
(4) Purdue University
10,408
27,960
(9) University of Florida
5,045
27,322
(1) Pennsylvania State University
15,250
27,114
(7) Georgia Institute of Technology
8,716
26,926
(8) University of Maryland, College Park
8,415
24,830
(16) University of Wisconsin, Madison
9,050
24,300
(13) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
*Brigham fees divided by latter day saints and not latter day saints.
479 recruiters from 30 different industries were surveyed. Recruiters were given a list of 100 Universities to rate and also had the option to add colleges that were not on the original list.
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