Conn College tops for tuition

Connecticut College plodded ahead of Sarah Lawrence College to become the most expensive institution of higher-education in the country – on paper anyway – charging about $44,000 in tuition compared to a national average of about $22,000.

Factoring in grant aid, the New London school stayed free of the priciest institutions in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Rounding out the top five were Columbia University, Vassar College and George Washington University. Hartford”™s Trinity College ranked sixth with tuition of $42,400, and Middletown”™s Wesleyan University was 11th at $42,100.

Penn State University was the most expensive public university in the nation with tuition of more that $15,200.