High Cost of Tuition

penndad
Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:25:59 +0000

My daughter is applying to George Washington University. GWU has the highest tuition of any four year college or university in the country. They justify this by saying that the tuition remains the same for the four years. I compared the tuition of GWU with the tuition at the University of Pennsylvania where my older daughter goes to school. I assumed that the the Penn tuition would increase at a rate of 5% per year which is approximately the average annual increase in college tuition. One would still end up paying over $4,000 more at GWU than at Penn over the four years. How can this be justified?