<p>I understand that each year tuition seems to rise or at least somewat significantly one's junior year... first i would like to kno if this is true and to wat degree (meaning is it a significant increase?)</p>
<p>It certainly seems that tuition and/or room & board rises each year! Go to the websites for schools in which you are interested and do a search for tuition/fees. You'll be able to get a feel for it that way.</p>
<p>SOme schools actually increase tuition in junior and senior year above the yearly school wide increases.</p>
<p>Can you lock in the cost of college during your four years some way?</p>
<p>Some schools offer the option of prepaying 4 years of tuition at the first year price per year. If you have the money, it might be a good bet. Personally, I can't even imagine being able to do that :)!</p>
<p>Kelsmom-YiKKKes Me too. Way to much to afford.</p>
<p>GW has a fixed tuition program where tuition is guaranteed to remain the same as freshman year for 4 years - or maybe even up to ten semesters, I think. You don't have to pre-pay to lock it in - in fact they even have a very nice payment plan where you can spread annual tution payments over 10months for a very small fee and No interest added.</p>
<p>From the research that I have done to see what the average annual tuition increases at other private universities might be it seems reasonable to plan on at least a 6% increase per year. When I ran the numbers at 6% it added about $12 K to the total 4 year cost of one of the other schools my D is considering, bringing the 4 year total cost much closer to the GW 4 year cost (even though the tution is substantially higher at GW).</p>
<p>GW also awards at least a portion of your Financial Aid package as Guaranteed grants - so once they are awarded and confirmed you can depend on them staying the same for up tp 10 semesters, as well. </p>
<p>The combination of fixed tuition and guaranteed grants really help you to know exactly what you are getting in to and be able to plan accordingly. I don't know if there are any other schools that offer fixed tution - but I think it is a great plan.</p>