Okay, kiddo, so you know you go to school, right? Just like how you go to school every day, college is like school but for grown-ups! It's a place where you can learn new things and get to be really smart.
But going to college costs money. Just like how you need to buy pencils and paper for school, college costs a lot of money because you need to pay for classes, books, and maybe even a place to live.
The college tuition is the money that you have to pay to go to college. It’s like a ticket that you have to buy to get in! But everyone can't afford to pay that ticket, so they have to do some special things to get money.
Sometimes colleges give students out money to help pay for their tuition, and that's called financial aid. Other times students take out loans, which means they borrow money from a bank and then have to pay the bank back later.
So, basically, college tuition is the money you have to pay to go to college, and some people get help paying for it so that they can go and learn new things.