the ten most expensive colleges in the country

[cali]

10. Trinity

9. Bard

8. Barnard

7. Harvey Mudd

6. NYU

5. Georgetown

4. Johns Hopkins

3. Columbia

2. Wesleyan

1. Sarah Lawrence

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-colleges-2011-4#10-trinity-college-in-hartford-conn-1

[adigal]

1. Yes but they all give 100% financial aid to students

who need it. My son goes to an Ivy league and it costs us less than the in-state tuition at a NY state school my other son goes to.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. shhh!

we are complaining, don't disturb us with facts. And anyway, it still is a shitty way to run our higher education system. Lots of families are caught in the dead zone where they get to pay full freight to put their kids in a top school, even though the financial burden of doing so is staggering. Over in that socialist hell hole of Yurp, one can generally attend equivalent institutions to the "way over 50K/yr" crowd for essentially nothing.

[matt819]

8. Same here, but there's a problem with that

It's hard to be critical of what classes they take and how they do when all you can say is, Hey, I paid $350 for your education this semester, and you took what??

Hey, my kids laugh at me anyway, so even if I paid for everything, I'd get the same "yeah, so?" reply.

[adigal]

12. I know - the school should scold him when he doesn't study

Right??

[cloudbase]

2. Here's a list of the colleges

where one gets the most bang for the buck:

http://www.payscale.com/education/average-cost-for-college-ROI

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Thanks!

[seabeyond]

3. NYU yesterday said interested in son. we will just. say. no. lol. nt

[bigwillq]

4. Where does he want to go? (nt)

[seabeyond]

6. he is a soph. this year has been fun. he has gotten from tulaine, chicago, perdue

oregon, calif, washington, lol lol

he gets a choice of texas universities unless he gets an amazing scholarship. he is ok with unv of texas in austin

[bigwillq]

15. Wow. A lot of choices.

Good for him.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. I attended two of them!

But damn the costs were way lower, even adjusting for inflation.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. That's Trinity College, not Trinity University.

I went to Trinity University in San Antonio. Presbyterian.

It's damned expensive too.

[JI7]

10. for some reason i didn't think NYU would be on there

[zazen]

11. some tuition is raised just to improve the institution's status

I read in some research article this past semester that the lower tier elite schools actually saw a drop in applications when they kept their tuitions lower relative to their peer institutions. So George Washington, for example, now charges a huge amount on the full sticker price, although of course they discount that a great deal for need-based aid.

The public generally doesn't understand tuition discounting, which in fact is one of the few examples of a major institution in this country actually shifting some of the burden to those who can afford it (given the decrease in state subsidies and federal grants) to offset costs so that lower income students have a shot at it. So the families who make 250K plus pay a lot more, but then admission really gets to be need-blind for the poorest students (except for early decision admissions, but that's another story.)

[Blue_Tires]

16. Years ago I had a GF proud to tell anyone she went to the most expensive school in Texas

(Southern Methodist--I don't know if they are still the most expensive, though...)

[Rex]

13. They named a college after a fictional star trek villian?

I kid. We all know his name was Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

[w8liftinglady]

14. What, No Yale? man,times are getting bad!

My dad went to Yale thanks to the good old USAF. My mom worked at Eugene O'Neill's office there.
Good old days,man.

[Lionel Mandrake]

18. They all cost about the same, except #1,

which is a few thousand dollars more expensive than the others.

#10: $53,330 ...
#2: $53,976
#1: $57,384

Wesleyan (#2) is only 1.2 % more expensive than Trinity (#10).

Does anyone else find this remarkable?

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Eeeks! Rice University was about $4k a year when I went. College is too damn expensive now.

I think even the most expensive colleges I considered were only $10k a year back in 1977. Did we really get 500% inflation between 1977 and now?

[Lionel Mandrake]

20. The cost of going to college is like the cost of going to a hospital

in that both have recently risen much faster than inflation.

But medical costs at the priciest hospitals are not all about the same.