[C-L] Public and private colleges in Mississippi increase tuition
The Clarion Ledger reports that colleges in the Jackson area such as Millsaps, Tougaloo and Belhaven are increasing their tuition anywhere from 1.7 percent to 6 percent. Mississippi’s eight public universities are raising tuition an average of 6 percent. College tuitions are being raised to keep up with the increasing cost of campus utilities.
Public or private, the decision to raise tuition is never easy.
“We really struggle to keep our costs affordable and competitive,” Tougaloo President Beverly Hogan said Monday. “We are mindful of costs of a college education being a barrier to students.”
With the 5 percent increase, the 136-year-old historically black college in Jackson will push its annual tuition to about $8,800. Factor in room and board increases, and the new cost of a Tougaloo education will climb to a little more than $15,000 annually, Hogan said. “We didn’t have one (tuition increase) the last couple of years,” she said. “It’s time.”
Technology costs helped fuel Tougaloo’s increase.
At Belhaven, tuition and fees will be $15,580 next school year. With $6,000 for room and board, annual costs climb to $21,580, school officials said.
Mississippi College’s new price tag will be $17,994, including $11,800 for tuition, for full-time undergrads in 2007-08. MC leaders limited the tuition hike to 1.7 percent to help pay for salaries, inflation and other expenses, said MC board Chairman Bill Sones, a Brookhaven banker.
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