Most Expensive Colleges 2010-2011
Topics:Colleges & Universities
Text Size 
 |
Photo credit: Comstock Images|Getty Images If you think you're paying fortune for your kid's college education, you might want to take a look at these schools. Total cost at the priciest college is inching closer to $60,000 a year.Compiled by college news website CampusGrotto.com, the colleges are ranked by the price of tuition plus the cost of room and board during the 2010-2011 school session , all of which is readily available to the public. The schools ranked are four-year undergraduate colleges and excludes junior colleges and music conservatories. That said, click on to see the top ten. By Joseph PisaniPosted Oct. 20, 2010 |
 |
Photo credit: Facebook Claremont, Calif.Total cost: $52,686 Change from previous year: +4.7 percent Previous ranking: 23 Notable alumni: TV journalist Serena Altschul, artist Alison Saar and theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether. |
 |
Washington, D.C. Total cost: $52,980 Change from previous year: +2.4 percent Previous ranking: 3 Notable alumni: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. |
 |
Photo credit: Wikipedia Claremont, Calif.Total cost: $52,995 Change from previous year: +4.3 percent Previous ranking: 12 Notable alumni: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts co-founder Henry Kravis, Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and movie director Paul Brickman. |
 |
New London, Conn. Total cost: $53,110 Change from previous year: +3.9 percent Previous ranking: 8 Notable alumni: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, actress Estelle Parsons and fashion designer Peter Som. |
 |
Baltimore, Md. Total cost: $53,190 Change from previous year: +3.9 percent Previous ranking: 6 Notable alumni: Mayor of New York and businessman Michael Bloomberg, IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano and Merrill Lynch co-founder Edmund Lynch. |
 |
Lewiston, Maine Total cost: $53,300 Change from previous year: +3.9 percent Previous ranking: 4 Notable alumni: News anchor Bryant Gumbel, Medco CEO David Snow and author Dorothy Clarke Wilson. |
 |
Claremont, Calif. Total cost: $53,331 Change from previous year: +4.5 percent Previous ranking: 9 Notable alumni: Astronauts Stanley Love and George Nelson and movie producer Michael G. Wilson. |
 |
Photo credit: Olivia Bartlett|Wesleyan University|Facebook Middletown, Conn.Total cost: $53,406 Change from previous year: +5.0 percent Previous ranking: 11 Notable alumni: Movie director Michael Bay, Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and Harrah’s Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman. |
 |
Photo credit: Facebook New York, N.Y.Total cost: $53,589 Change from previous year: +3.1 percent Previous ranking: 2 Notable alumni: Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, economist Henry Kaufman and movie director Martin Scorsese. |
 |
Bronxville, N.Y. Total cost: $56,420 Change from previous year: +3.7 percent Previous ranking: 1 Notable alumni: Journalist Barbara Walters, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and television/film producer J. J. Abrams. |
© 2012 CNBC.com
- Critical elections are scheduled for Greece in June. Here are some of the players and their roles.
- Our financial system is still not designed to meet the needs of poor families, says this author.
- Statistics show there aren’t many women billionaires compared to their male counterparts. Why?
- Click to see various forms of funding and what entrepreneurs have used to build successful companies.
- Here are some of the most expensive hotels in the world to book. And we mean expen$$ive.
- Always drink responsibly and when you do, try one of these more unusual and tasty drinks. Cheers!
MORE FROM CNBC
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes
