The Noodle
College Cost Project
Higher ed has become much more expensive over the past few decades (Baumol and Bowen referred to this rise as “cost disease”); we created Noodle Partners to improve it while lowering its cost. To do so, we needed to understand where those costs came from, so we reworked each institution’s published financial data into a simple income statement for a single undergraduate student.
Welcome to the Noodle College Cost Calculator. We hope this sparks a useful conversation among your board members and administrators, and look forward to helping you solve a very difficult problem!