It’s also home to the top most expensive college this year, which is Vassar College, an independent liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie. Vassar has a yearly tuition of $73,275.

How does Alabama compare against the most expensive colleges? The average in-state annual tuition for 2025-2026 at the University of Alabama is $11,684 and $13,384 at Auburn University.

George Washington University Sticker price (tuition, room & board, fees): $88,210 “Washington, D.C. has long been a coveted college town destination.

Not surprisingly, it also has some of the most expensive, with Wellesley College recently announcing that overall annual costs for undergraduates will surpass $100,000 in September.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A new study ranked the top 30 most expensive colleges and universities across the United States in 2025 — and six of the schools are located in New York state.