"hefty tuition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You might use it when referring to the considerable cost of college tuition. For example, "The university's hefty tuition was prohibitive for many low-income students."
But at least, unlike your undergraduate education, failure doesn't come with a hefty tuition charge.
Of the remainder, the majority are students, prized because they pay hefty tuition fees.
Recent research shows that, despite hefty tuition fees, many have not only survived but prospered through the global economic crisis.
A1 CUNY Enrollment and Tuition Up Enrollment at the City University of New York rose 2.4percentthisisemesterer, despite hefty tuition increases this year.
He kept muttering about hefty tuition bills and liberal professors who had probably never put in an honest day's work in their lives.
Despite hefty tuition increases this year, enrollment at the City University of New York rose 2.4percentthisisemesterer, to 213,952.
And no, teachers and school administrators are not working for the parents, no matter how hefty the tuition fees.
This time Barkley was suspended by St. John's essentially on the order of the N.C.A.A. for having accepted $3,150 to help pay the hefty annual tuition of $21,500 at a Maine prep school he had attended for a year.
Tim didn't qualify for federal aid; instead, he scraped the hefty grad school tuition together through work, scholarships and fundraisers.
Art academia calls this amalgamation "New Genres" but you can bet nobody who performs an Ice Bucket Challenge will be considered a new genres artist if they don't fork over that hefty art school tuition.
With the cost of law school skyrocketing over the years, the implicit arrangement between students and the most expensive and prestigious schools has only strengthened: the student takes on hefty debt to pay tuition, and the school issues the golden ticket to a job at a high-paying firm — if that's what the student wants.
