Hartford, CT · Private · Every figure is for a student starting in fall 2027. We work each one out again whenever we update the site.
How to pay for Trinity College
What a year costs here, what brings it down, and what a SmartTuition plan could save a family like yours.
Paying for four years here
Four years here, after grants
$69,823
A SmartTuition plan could save a family like this about $4,000.
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester, using your own numbers.
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A family of four with good credit and $500 a month for college. How we worked these out ↓
A year at Trinity College
| Full price | $101,930 |
| After grants, at your income | $18,663 |
73% of first-year students here got a grant or scholarship from the college in 2023-24, $50,834 on average.
At this income, 2 of Connecticut's other 10 colleges cost less after grants, and 8 cost more. See them all →
What can bring it down
Trinity College's promise. Trinity College says it covers all of what a family cannot pay. The conditions ↓
Pay less for college
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester.
At Trinity College, our scenarios for Connecticut households with good parent credit show a SmartTuition plan saving a median of about $6,800 over four years. How we worked this out ↓
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Put your schools side by side →What Trinity College commits to
Trinity College says it covers all of what a family cannot pay.
“Through a combination of generous merit scholarships and financial assistance that meets full demonstrated need, Trinity makes a world-class education possible for every admitted student.”
Trinity College Admissions and Financial Aid — verified 2026-09.
Conditions the school attaches to that commitment
- Trinity College's own Common Data Set for 2024-25 reports that it met 100% of need, on average.
These are the school’s own qualifiers. A commitment quoted without them is not the commitment they made.
How we worked these out
The family
A family of four with good parent credit and $500 a month to put toward college, and the savings you pick. In state, the grants are what Trinity College reports families at that income got, on average. Your own will differ, and a family with no aid pays close to the full price.
What a SmartTuition plan saves
The difference, over four years, between a SmartTuition plan and the standard approach: savings first, then loans for the rest. It counts loan interest and the federal tax credit. For a family that lives in Connecticut, it also counts Connecticut's tax deduction for money you put through its 529 plan.
The $6,800 in the “Pay less for college” box near the top of this page is the median saving in Trinity College's own scenarios. Each scenario is a household that lives in Connecticut, with an income from $45,000 to $200,000 and savings of none, $40,000 or $100,000 in a 529. We price Trinity College at the aid it reports for that income.
Every scenario has parents with good credit and $500 a month toward college. The card above uses the same two. A scenario where the parents would borrow more than $65,000 is left out.
The prices by income
- They describe students who got aid.
- “Over $110,000” has no upper limit, so it averages families just over $110,000 with far wealthier ones. A family at $115,000 should expect to pay less than it shows.
- Each range is reported on its own, so the prices do not always rise with income.
Grants from the college
How many first-year students got a grant from Trinity College, and the average, are the Department of Education's figures for full-time students who started in 2023-24. They cover every income. The prices after grants already count these grants, so don't take them off again. The Department of Education's page for Trinity College →
Where the prices come from
Where the prices come from: the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard (2025-26 figures), carried forward to 2027 at 4.0% a year, because the Scorecard publishes about two years behind. The full price is the college’s tuition, fees, housing and food on campus, and books. Each price after grants is the full price less the average grant families at that income received. The average price after grants counts the students who get federal aid. Your own figure will be different.
The U.S. Department of Education's own figure for a year at Trinity College, carried forward the same way, is $99,501, or $40,024 after the average grant. It averages the living costs of students on campus, off campus and at home, and counts costs the college doesn't bill for, such as travel and personal spending. Our full price is what the college charges a student who lives on campus.
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Nearby at your income
- Yale University$8,110 a year
- Wesleyan University$16,441 a year
- Trinity College$18,663 a year
- Central Connecticut State University$21,410 a year
- UConn$23,026 a year
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