Bates Charging $51,300 Leads Expensive U.S. Colleges List
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Maine’s Bates College is the most expensive private, nonprofit college in the U.S., with its $51,300 price tag in 2009-2010 leading a new government list designed to hold schools accountable for costs.
The price for Bates, in Lewiston, Maine, included tuition, fees and room plus board. That was followed by Connecticut College in New London, which cost $51,115 for the same expenses and Vermont’s Middlebury College, which charged $50,780, according to the list of college prices released today on a U.S. Department of Education website. The average tuition without room and board for private nonprofit colleges in 2009-10 was $21,324.