Via Consumerist, CampusGrotto.com has up a list of the country’s most expensive colleges.

The top 10:

1. Sarah Lawrence College – $54,410
2. New York University – $51,991
3. The George Washington University – $51,730
4. Bates College – $51,300
5. Skidmore College – $51,196
6. Johns Hopkins University – $51,190
7. Georgetown University – $51,122
8. Connecticut College – $51,115
9. Harvey Mudd College – $51,037
10. Vassar College – $50,875

For those keeping track at home, one year of tuition at any of these schools is more or less equivalent to the median American household income.

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Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.