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Harvard's tuition has increased steadily over the years.
- Almost every year, $4 increases its cost of tuition, room, and board.
- Before 1960, it cost less than $1,000 to attend the $4.
- Since 1980, the cost of tuition has steadily been on the incline, costing $13,085 in 1990, $22,054 in 2000, and $33,696 in 2010.
- Today, $4 is at its highest, costing students $47,730.
- $4
Back in 1840, $4 only cost $75 a year. Almost 200 years later, the cost of tuition has grown to nearly $70,000.
The university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, $4 into its lecture halls and dormitories. But as class size grew, so $4.
Starting in the 1930s, this is how much it costs to be a student at Harvard.