PolicyMap & National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
| Details | Average total cost of college, tuition and fees at a 2-year public institution, average total cost of college, tuition and fees at a 4-year public institution |
|---|---|
| Topics | Cost of college, tuition |
| Source | PolicyMap, NCES |
| Years Available | 2018 |
| Geographies | State |
| Public Edition or Subscriber-only | Subscriber-only |
| Download Available | no |
| For more information | http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/ |
| Last updated on PolicyMap | May 2019 |
Description:
PolicyMap created estimates of the average cost of public college in the United States using NCES’s Integrated Postesecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data on 2-year and 4-year public institutions. For each institution category, the sum of the cost for in-state tuition, in-state fees, books and supplies, on-campus room and board, and other on-campus expenses was multiplied by the full-time undergraduate enrollment, using the total full-time enrollment within the state to calculate the state average. Institutions with either no full-time undergraduate enrollment, or no information for both in-state tuition and in-state fees were excluded from the calculations. Cost of public college data is based on a custom download of preliminary data from http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/InstitutionByName.aspx. It applies to the 2017-2018 school year and was downloaded in May, 2019.