Multiple New England Colleges Soar Past $90K Annual Tuition: Report

MASSACHUSETTS — The tuition for multiple New England colleges will soar above a record-high $90,000 next year, according to a Boston.com report.

Tufts leads what the outlet called the "high-tuition pack" of schools — also including Boston University, Yale University, and Wellesley College — with an annual cost of nearly $96,000 beginning the 2024-2025 school year, the report said.

That's well over double the national average cost of tuition and fees at a private, nonprofit university, which the Education Data Initiative said was $38,768 annually in 2023. These figures do not include scholarship money and financial aid.

By comparison, the University of Massachusetts Amherst's annual tuition is $17,357 for in-state students.

While it generally costs more to attend private nonprofit institutions than public colleges — the national average cost of in-state tuition at public schools is $10,662 for 2023-2024 — tuition costs are increasing across the board and have been for a long time.

The average cost of college tuition and fees at public four-year institutions rose 179.2 percent in 20 years for an average annual increase of 9 percent, according to a 2022 Education Data Initiative report.

Read the full report in Boston.com.