In creating this list, we put colleges into two different categories. The first category shows the five private colleges, by region, with the highest average net price for students whose families have incomes of $110,000 or more.

The second table shows, by region, the five private colleges with the highest graduation rate and an average net price of under $30,000 for freshman whose families have incomes of over $110,000.

This information is based on data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Students are only listed in the family income category if they also received some form of federal aid including student loans or work-study. Therefore, it is possible that families in this income category received gift aid from the college and no federal aid and would not appear in this data.

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