"Students and families can compare colleges’ tuitions, the pace at which they are rising and the net cost of attending each college on a new Web site the Department of Education made public on Thursday, fulfilling a legislative mandate."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/ed...b.html?_r=1&hp

This article includes the following links:

"information about tuition and net prices at postsecondary institutions"http://collegecost.ed.gov/index.aspx...b3b5b0ac9bcbc8

and the "College Navigator" that has a number of kinds of information about any colleges you choose:

http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/