The most expensive college in America is a tiny STEM 'bootcamp' outside Los Angeles whose graduates out-earn Harvard and Stanford alums

Harvey Mudd College, a tiny liberal-arts school in Claremont, California, $4

With an $4 attending Mudd for four years will run students, and their families, more than a quarter of a million dollars.

The school, which enrolls about 800 students, offers a Bachelor of Science in math, science, and engineering majors, and is considered one of the best schools in the nation for students seeking a degree in the hard sciences.

As a member of the Claremont Colleges Consortium - which includes Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences - students can take classes at any of the other member schools.

Mudd has a unique approach to academics. The school not only encourages, but demands, that Mudders graduate with a strong liberal-arts background, $4 as they must in core introductory courses in the sciences.

$4 as "an academic boot camp in the STEM disciplines - math, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering - as well as classes in writing and critical inquiry" that it says "gives students a broad scientific foundation and the skills to think and to solve problems across disciplines."

Harvey Mudd is selective, with an admission rate of about 13%, according to the US News & World Report. The student body is split 46% female and 54% male, with a student-teacher ratio of 8:1.

Despite its male-heavy lean, Harvey Mudd has strong representation of women in traditionally male-dominated fields.

In 2016, HMC graduated its first majority-female computer-science class. Nationally, men make up more than 84% of undergraduates majoring in computer science, $4.

And although the cost to attend the school is steep, a degree from Harvey Mudd appears to be worth it. The school routinely shows up on lists that $4 and $4.