Can you name the US universities that have over 15,000 students and cost over $40,000 in tuition?

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Source: National Center for Education Statistics
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Tuition	University	# of Students
$47,246		22,885
$44,463		38,010
$43,930		21,139
$43,779		19,968
$43,747		25,260
$43,738		19,919
$43,623		15,427

Tuition	University	# of Students
$43,413		21,131
$42,994		32,439
$42,870		17,130
$41,787		19,945
$41,732		15,189
$41,606		43,911
$40,866		19,872

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Large & Expensive Universities Quiz

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	david6k:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 15:14 GMT		6 points
	Excellent idea for a quiz, but I wish the instructions were clearer. I assumed it was 15,000 undergraduates, so it never occurred to me to try Johns Hopkins or most of the Ivies.

	kps7179:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 15:17 GMT		2 points
	@david: I got Johns Hopkins and all the Ivies. It said 15,000 students, not 15,000 undergraduates.

	mand1212:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 15:36 GMT		16 points
	George Washington is #1, huh?!? Can't help but feel thats ironic since he is on the cheapest bill

	qtowndogg:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 15:44 GMT		8 points
	Yeah, that certainly would cost a lost of George Washington's to go there!

	WyattsTorch:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 15:57 GMT		25 points
	I misspelled "Stanford" as "Stamford." No wonder I didn't get in...

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	PJSeeds:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 16:37 GMT		8 points
	thought "BU" would be acceptable for Boston University... guess not.

	charolastra:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 16:43 GMT		3 points
	Wow, Michigan is expensive for a public university.

	kphilippe:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 16:54 GMT		0 points
	Okay with not accepting Boston or BU, but how about Boston U?

	glax21:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 16:58 GMT		0 points
	University of Virginia should be added, if the tuition used is out of state: 21,106 students http://www.virginia.edu/Facts/Glance_Enrollment.html $38,236 tuition http://www.virginia.edu/financialaid/estimated.php

	jonesjeffum:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 17:04 GMT		3 points
	Out of State is used for these - Virginia should be on here too- the tuition and enrollment numbers have changed since I made this quiz.

	david6k:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 17:19 GMT		1 point
	@kps: As Booger points out, the tuition is clearly undergraduate tuition. If the $30,000 encompassed graduate school tuitions as well (including law schools and medical schools) the number of schools on the list would be much higher. I think having combined student populations is fine, I just wish the instructions were a bit more specific.

	Booger:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 17:21 GMT		3 points
	If you are counting grad students for enrollment, it would seem that tuition should include graduate tuition. Not sure that is consistent in the source. (By the way, I changed my initial comment after I saw that the instructions state that out-of-state tuition is used for public schools).

	ScottLA:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 17:25 GMT		1 point
	Tried Chicago but not Northwestern, tried BC but not BU...ugh...clearly I didn't go to any of these...

	ari18:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 17:45 GMT		2 points
	Can you accept "University of Michigan" for "Michigan"? That's its full name...

	imclala:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 18:01 GMT		-3 points
	Maybe this is obvious, but is "Penn" Penn State or University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)? Please accept "bu" for Boston University. After getting NYU I assumed all common abbreviations were accepted, and it did not occur to me to try full names when the abbreviation did not work.

	crow_t_robot:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 18:07 GMT		-1 points
	Are you people serious? If you can figure out to type "University of Michigan", you can figure out "Michigan", and Penn is UPenn, which is why "Penn State" adds the state to diffrentiate itself. Also, the more ironic thing about GW is that it's the most expensive college on a list that includes 5 Ivy League schools, Northwestern and Stanford.

	jonesjeffum:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 18:16 GMT		2 points
	ok this quiz should be changed to $40,000 in tuition due to recent inflation: here is the list of schools: Boston, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Fordham, George Washington, Georgetown, Harvard, John Hopkins, NYU, Northeastern, Northwestern, Stanford, Penn, and USC

	zdg:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 18:59 GMT		2 points
	Typed "fordham" and "georgetown" and neither came up.

	amyevg:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 19:04 GMT		6 points
	@All I have made quite a few edits (Thanks jonesjeffum) - it is now $40,000 in tuition, adjusted for inflation. Crazy that the price of some of these universities jumped so high in a one year's time! Good thing Sporcle University is free ;)

	buis_golalas:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 19:12 GMT		3 points
	Boston, Georgetown, & Fordham all need to be acceptable answers without the university.

	steeltown:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 19:13 GMT		4 points
	I'm with zdg: I spend more time on these school quizzes figuring out which abbreviations are acceptable than I do on which answers might be correct. Are there any sporcle conventions on this, or could they be part of the instructions? Does Sporcle U have an orientation on this? (Right after explaining that DRC is acceptable, the difference between the UK and any of its constituent countries, how to spell Kyrgyzstan, etc.).

	amyevg:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 19:18 GMT		3 points
	@buis_golalas Alternates now accepted!

	chriskotx:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 22:10 GMT		0 points
	USC and NYU are the only two schools on this list that are nationally recognized by their initials. BU means Baylor around here.

	allizonk:	Sep 14th, 2012 at 23:21 GMT		1 point
	I'm not very familiar with the American college system, are these fees per year or total for an undergraduate degree?

	NotYou:	Sep 15th, 2012 at 01:51 GMT		2 points
	@allizonk, they're tuition and fees for one year, not including room and board or textbooks.

	thirdheaven:	Sep 15th, 2012 at 05:09 GMT		1 point
	Johns Hopkins? I smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins. It was Johnny Hopkins and Sloan Kettering, and they were blazing that s*it up every day.

	freaky69az:	Sep 15th, 2012 at 09:22 GMT		7 points
	Just can't (af)Fordham

	jago706:	Sep 15th, 2012 at 16:28 GMT		0 points
	How ironic that Harvard, by far the most guessed in this quiz (with Stanford at a distant second), falls at the bottom of the list with just over $40,000.

	PsychoPyro813:	Sep 15th, 2012 at 17:51 GMT		2 points
	I was wondering what happened to Michigan after reading the comments, as that was the first one I tried...so maybe I can afford to go there now? Haha. (Incidentally, I tried Northwestern second and wasn't the least but surprised...I wonder why my top two choice schools are so freaking expensive)

	lijonathan154:	Sep 16th, 2012 at 01:15 GMT		6 points
	Please accept BU, nobody calls it Boston.

	llamaman2:	Sep 16th, 2012 at 02:25 GMT		0 points
	michigan still costs over $40,000 according to their financial aid website. http://www.finaid.umich.edu/TopNav/AboutUMFinancialAid/CostofAttendance.aspx