California Private Colleges Ranked by Highest In State Tution

List of Private Colleges by In State Tution

Below is a college cost ranking of the 83 private colleges in California with the highest in state tution. Harvey Mudd College tops the list with tuition and fees total of $56,331. Note these costs do not include room and board or living expenses.

Data is reported for the 2018/19 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.

List of California Private Colleges Ranked by Highest In State Tution
	College	Tuition In State
H	Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA	$56,620
S	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	$56,225
S	Scripps College Claremont, CA	$55,024
O	Occidental College Los Angeles, CA	$54,686
C	Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA	$54,405
P	Pitzer College Claremont, CA	$54,056
P	Pepperdine University Malibu, CA	$53,932
P	Pomona College Claremont, CA	$52,780
C	Chapman University Orange, CA	$52,724
C	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	$52,362
S	Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA	$51,711
S	Stanford University Stanford, CA	$51,354
R	University of Redlands Redlands, CA	$49,504
S	University of San Diego San Diego, CA	$49,358
C	California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA	$49,276
C	California College of the Arts Oakland, CA	$49,138
L	Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA	$48,522
t	University of the Pacific Stockton, CA	$48,164
W	Whittier College Whittier, CA	$48,086
S	University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA	$48,066