During the past 20 years, Harvard's undergraduate bill has risen from $14,000 to $39,880 per academic year (before any offsetting financial aid), an increase of 183 percent. The figures below compare tuition and fee growth to the higher-education price index (up about 110 percent); median family income (roughly doubled); and the urban consumer price index (up about 80 percent). Tuition exclusive of room, board, and feesgraphed at bottomrose from $9,500 to $27,448.
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Arthur Kleinman and Harry Lewis depart the classroom.
The Harvard Law professor and constitutional scholar on what Star Wars can tell us about today’s Supreme Court
University publishes findings from thorough examinations of campus conditions.
Unprecedented federal actions against research funding, diversity, speech, and more
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How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
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