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1. An imaginary number invented by college administrators to inspire fear in middle-class parents and new students.

2. An enormous fee that automatically rises at 3 times the rate of inflation.

3. The catch-all term for huge sums of money that young pepole start paying at age 18 or 19. Payments usually continue for the next 10-20 years.
College President: "What should Tuition be next year?"

Comptroller: "Let's me see... $38,000 has a nice ring to it. Of course, we always tack on another $6,000 in fees just for fun, not to mention mandatory health insurance and thost textbooks that cost $100 a pop."

College President: "Can we make it $39,000?"

Comptroller: "Why not? Works for me!"
Tuition by Peter Kobs February 12, 2010
The price you pay for an instructor to spoon feed you information that can be found for free at the library or an online search because people are too lazy to go do it themselves. On the introductory level , power points are usually used , which are made by the publisher so the lazy instructor can have more time to go home and watch porn and eat chips during his supposedly "valuable time". Tuition prices can be astronomical, which sadly are on the rise to only allow the insanely wealthy to attend the lectures, and the poorer people having to work at Taco Bell.
Typical College Student: Man I cannot miss today's lecture, it is going to be important and I need to take lots and lots of notes, omg!

Smart Bystander: You are not missing anything, you are wasting your time sitting in the class when you can just read the textbook at home. The textbook has better "notes" in it then you will ever be able to take. You totally wasted your money on college tuition.
tuition by TbagT September 8, 2013
something that most Asians have and a synonym for torture
i hate going to tuition
tuition by Asian_girl August 1, 2020

tuition genie 

An evil imaginary being, which can only be seen in a state of high (though sometimes in drunkness as well), which drains university/college students of their money through the traditional methods of collecting called tuition. First sighting occured at Simon Fraser University, more occurances are believed to occur at SFU and elsewhere.
Sober guy:"Dude I'm broke"
High guy:"YOu must've been ripped off by the tuition genie"

tuition free 

When you get something in school that you didn't directly purchase but your tuition pays for it.
Person 1: "My teacher just handed me this digital camera for free for my photo class."
Person 2: "Dude, that's not free, your tuition payed for it."
Person 1: "Yeah, I know man, that's what you call 'tuition free'."
tuition free by MegaMost February 25, 2011

tuition clothes 

those bland lowkey basic clothes you wear to tuition cause you dont really care about how you look.
Bruhhh , the only clothes she wears are tuition clothes!
Hey I need to change my clothes in your house cause I'll be wearing tuition clothes
tuition clothes by the fashion guru February 15, 2020