The cost of college in the United States is often one that is covered in the news. Due to rising costs and fees, more and more students are taking out loans to pay for their education. According to the, Pew Research Center, Americans owed around $1.3 trillion in student debt last year, a rate that is more than 2.5 times the amount 10 years earlier. So college can be pricey, but just how do those costs size up from state to state?

At Simple Thrifty Living, we were interested in looking the cost of both in-state and out-of-state tuition across the U.S for four-year public institutions. We turned to College Board who compiled an average cost per state. We then took those numbers and visualized the data to get a complete look at the country. Here’s what we found