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Fighting to Be the Highest Cost School
The Campus Grotto blog has come out with its annual Most Expensive Colleges edition. Guess which school in low-cost, rural New Hampshire made the top ten when tuition, room and board, and fees are cumulated? The other schools leading the list are in the NYC area (4), Philadelphia (1), Chicago (1), Connecticut (1) and California (2). Where would you get the best value on a three-bedroom house with a yard?
Curiously enough, when only tuition and fees are in the mix, we didn’t make the top ten (we are #11). What does that tell you? Only one thing: that DDS is a rip-off. But then students know that.
How clever of our MBA Trustees. They have figured out that they can keep tuition a little lower if they jack up the cost of mealplans and make having one mandatory. Now you know how they made their dough.
Addendum: As anyone on financial aid knows, aid to tuition is more generous than aid for room and board. They gotcha again!
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