Here are the top 100 most expensive colleges by tuition for the 2011-2012 school year. There are now 80 colleges that charge over $40,000/year for tuition, nearly double the amount that did last year.
| College | Tuition |
| 1. Middlebury College | $45,935 |
| 2. Sarah Lawrence College | $44,220 |
| 3. The George Washington University | $44,103 |
| 4. Vassar College | $44,050 |
| 5. Connecticut College | $43,990 |
| 6. Bucknell University | $43,628 |
| 7. Wesleyan University | $43,404 |
| 8. St. John's College | $43,256 |
| 9. University of Richmond | $43,170 |
| 10. Carnegie Mellon University | $43,160 |
| 11. Union College (NY) | $43,131 |
| 12. Columbia University | $43,088 |
| 13. Bard College at Simon's Rock | $43,000 |
| 14. Williams College | $42,938 |
| 15. Oberlin College | $42,842 |
| 16. Bowdoin College | $42,816 |
| 17. Carleton College | $42,690 |
| 18. Colgate University | $42,625 |
| 19. Dickinson College | $42,610 |
| 19. Gettysburg College | $42,610 |
| 21. Bates College | $42,550 |
| 22. Reed College | $42,540 |
| 23. Franklin & Marshall College | $42,510 |
| 24. Bard College | $42,476 |
| 25. St. Lawrence University | $42,420 |
| 26. Johns Hopkins University | $42,280 |
| 27. Hamilton College | $42,220 |
| 28. Amherst College | $42,170 |
| 29. University of Southern California | $42,162 |
| 30. Hobart and William Smith College | $42,014 |
| 31. Tufts University | $41,998 |
| 32. Claremont McKenna College | $41,995 |
| 33. Trinity College (CT) | $41,980 |
| 34. Hampshire College | $41,900 |
| 35. Harvey Mudd College | $41,870 |
| 36. Occidental College | $41,860 |
| 37. University of Chicago | $41,853 |
| 38. Haverford College | $41,830 |
| 39. Macalester College | $41,800 |
| 40. Scripps College | $41,736 |
| 40. Dartmouth College | $41,736 |
| 42. Bennington College | $41,690 |
| 43. Ursinus College | $41,650 |
| 44. Wheaton College (MA) | $41,600 |
| 44. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $41,600 |
| 46. Northwestern University | $41,592 |
| 47. Skidmore College | $41,520 |
| 48. Boston College | $41,480 |
| 49. Brown University | $41,328 |
| 50. Cornell University | $41,325 |
| 51. Mount Holyoke College | $41,270 |
| 52. Wake Forest University | $41,100 |
| 53. Kenyon College | $41,090 |
| 54. University of Rochester | $41,040 |
| 55. Colby College | $41,020 |
| 56. Washington and Lee University | $40,990 |
| 57. Washington University in St. Louis | $40,950 |
| 58. Georgetown University | $40,920 |
| 59. University of Notre Dame | $40,910 |
| 59. College of the Holy Cross | $40,910 |
| 61. Boston University | $40,848 |
| 62. Swarthmore College | $40,816 |
| 63. Duke University | $40,670 |
| 64. Lehigh University | $40,660 |
| 65. Emory University | $40,600 |
| 66. Villanova University | $40,530 |
| 67. Brandeis University | $40,514 |
| 68. Pepperdine University | $40,500 |
| 68. Yale University | $40,500 |
| 70. MIT | $40,460 |
| 71. Barnard College | $40,422 |
| 72. Wellesley College | $40,410 |
| 73. Babson College | $40,400 |
| 74. Lafayette College | $40,340 |
| 75. Vanderbilt University | $40,320 |
| 76. Stevens Institute of Technology | $40,300 |
| 77. Whitman College | $40,180 |
| 78. Providence College | $40,150 |
| 79. Drew University | $40,128 |
| 80. Stanford University | $40,050 |
| 81. Fairfield University | $39,990 |
| 82. Bryn Mawr College | $39,860 |
| 83. Tulane University | $39,850 |
| 84. Smith College | $39,800 |
| 85. Drexel University | $39,700 |
| 86. Muhlenberg College | $39,630 |
| 87. Pomona College | $39,572 |
| 88. Colorado College | $39,550 |
| 89. Loyola University Maryland | $39,470 |
| 90. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $39,450 |
| 91. New York University | $39,344 |
| 92. Denison University | $39,330 |
| 93. Grinnell College | $39,250 |
| 94. Fordham University | $39,235 |
| 95. Furman University | $39,200 |
| 95. Chapman University | $39,200 |
| 97. Santa Clara University | $39,048 |
| 98. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | $39,000 |
| 99. Pitzer College | $38,832 |
| 100. Willamette University | $38,800 |
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