Local Colleges to Surpass $90K per Year for 2024-25

And don’t leave out Wellesley coming in at an $92,060 for tuition room board & fees.

Fortunately for you, you don't have teenaged children to make these high costs a concern to you..   Oh wait - you do have high school and college age kids.  Maybe you can hit Powerball

Has HC announced what their 'msrp' will be for 24-25 - probably not quite at 90k but well into the 80's I'd guess

A financial advisor once told the parents of my kids graduating class that you're better off being poor than saving every penny when it comes to college.

We all know very few pay sticker price for college. I'm convinced schools like BU, Tufts and Wellesley see these prices as a badge of honor.

IMO it's time to either require colleges to keep costs down or lose federal funding and be prepared to pay taxes. They are no longer non-profits.

IIRC in the mid/late 80's, a period of high inflation, HC offered a 2 yr prepayment plan that was based on the current yr's costs.

The message seems to be: Yes, we're expensive but we're worth it, and we're also generous, so generous that we will make it possible to attend this life-changing institution.

BTW, be careful judging "quality" by price. There have been multiple studies that asked people to judge the quality of an item (wines being the most common). All people were shown was the price of the item. People almost always judged the most expensive to be the best...even though the same wine was in every glass!


I do look from time to time at the return on investment (roi) studies with multiple variables used. In those, HC seems to do very well.

On some level I would say they are non-profits because they don't control costs.  It used to be you shoved two kids in a 10 X 10 room that was practically a cell (unless of course you were in a torpedo room in Carlin or Alumni).  Now, at least the upperclassmen, have a similar room, and also a common room only shared with two other people, and a bath an a kitchenette for that group pf 4.  That costs money.  Our former neighbor and Assumption coach is getting 9.5 million down in LSU.  Only $340 per undergrad, but that's just one employee

Colleges that are not selling out their current athletic venues are paying $50-100 million for new palaces that will be used sparingly and where attendance will gradually revert to the true demand.

College cost is the biggest redistribution of wealth scheme in the country.

Definitely one of the bigger scams going around these days.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." -Karl Marx

Holy Cross has a balancing act similar to the log rollers on the old ABC Wide World of Sports. Log Rolling was among my favorite sports along with the ice skating barrel jumpers. HC has to use merit money to compete for elite achievers and need money to stay in the club of colleges that meet complete demonstrated family need of every accepted student.

How do they do it? My limited anecdotal experience is they overestimate how much families can realistically afford to pay thus underestimating their need for financial aid, perhaps especially for the cohort of applicants who HC needs to admit to meet their enrollment goals but whose HS transcript and test scores don't cause corks to be popped in O'Kane Hall.