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October 21, 2009 10:51 AM
There’s Expensive, and Then There’s Expensive
Via Consumerist, CampusGrotto.com has up a list of the country’s most expensive colleges.
The top 10:
1. Sarah Lawrence College - $54,410
2. New York University - $51,991
3. The George Washington University - $51,730
4. Bates College - $51,300
5. Skidmore College - $51,196
6. Johns Hopkins University - $51,190
7. Georgetown University - $51,122
8. Connecticut College - $51,115
9. Harvey Mudd College - $51,037
10. Vassar College - $50,875
For those keeping track at home, one year of tuition at any of these schools is more or less equivalent to the median American household income.
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Crissa on October 21, 2009 6:14 PM:
Admittedly, my sister is going to Vassar, and they have given her a scholarship so that it only costs as much as it cost for me to go to university sixteen years ago... So it's not that middle-income Americans are generally paying that much.
Robin on October 21, 2009 7:07 PM:
In 1973 tuition, room and board at Yale, then as now an expensive college, was $5,000 - about 40% of the average family's income. Today, that number is about 100% of family income.
It is state schools that are now close to that 40% number. Progress!