Colleges in Connecticut
Solyo has full profiles for 7 colleges in Connecticut: 1 public, 6 private nonprofit. The median family here pays $30,282 a year after grant aid, $8,717 above the national median. Half of these schools admit more than 33% of applicants. They sit across 7 cities, concentrated in Fairfield, Hartford, Middletown.
What Connecticut costs
Published in-state tuition at the median Connecticut public university is $21,044 a year before aid. Residency is worth the most at University of Connecticut, where an out-of-state family pays $22,668 more for the same degree.
After grants and scholarships the range runs from $23,777 at Yale University to $48,095 at Fairfield University. That spread is the reason a sticker price is a poor way to build a list in Connecticut.
Why net price beats sticker price, and what an average one does and does not tell a particular family.
How selective Connecticut schools are
Yale University admits 4% of applicants and University of Hartford admits 96%. A list drawn only from the selective end of that range has no likely school in it, which is the most common mistake in a first draft.
The highest average SAT reported in Connecticut is 1534 at Yale University.
Every Connecticut college profile
Ordered by selectivity, most selective first.
- Yale UniversityNew Haven, Connecticut · Private nonprofit4% acceptance · $23,777 net price · 1534 avg SAT
- Wesleyan UniversityMiddletown, Connecticut · Private nonprofit16% acceptance · $30,177 net price · 1501 avg SAT
- Trinity CollegeHartford, Connecticut · Private nonprofit29% acceptance · $34,832 net price · 1415 avg SAT
- Fairfield UniversityFairfield, Connecticut · Private nonprofit33% acceptance · $48,095 net price · 1335 avg SAT
- Connecticut CollegeNew London, Connecticut · Private nonprofit37% acceptance · $36,175 net price · 1432 avg SAT
- University of ConnecticutStorrs, Connecticut · Public52% acceptance · $25,097 net price · 1348 avg SAT
- University of HartfordWest Hartford, Connecticut · Private nonprofit96% acceptance · $30,282 net price · 1219 avg SAT
Other Northeast states
On median net price Connecticut is the 8th most affordable of the 9 Northeast states in this directory, and the 7th most accessible on median acceptance rate. In-state pricing makes the neighbouring states worth checking too.
- New York (27)
- Pennsylvania (26)
- Massachusetts (18)
- New Jersey (10)
- Rhode Island (5)
- Maine (4)
- New Hampshire (3)
- Vermont (3)
Where to go next
- College search filter Connecticut and every other state by major, cost and selectivity
- How to read these numbers what each figure on a profile measures
- Scholarship directory awards with published odds, filterable by state
- All 50 states and Washington D.C.