Tuition will once again be going up for out-of-state students at Keene State College.
According to Dave Solomon at the New Hampshire Union Leader, “Trustees approved tuition increases for out-of-state undergraduates at $670 (or 2.5 percent) per year at UNH; $550 (or 3 percent) at Keene State College; $460 (or 2.5 percent) at Plymouth State University; and $10 per credit hour or 3.2 percent at Granite State College.”
One Feb. 6 the USNH Board of Trustees voted to raise out-of-state tuition at these colleges, but held off on deciding whether in-state tuition will go up.
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Last year the trustees voted to freeze tuition for in-state students for two years, the first freeze of this type in twenty-five years, according to Allie Morris at the Concord Monitor.
New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan proposed a new $11.5 billion budget on Feb. 12.
The budget is a 6.4 percent increase over the current state budget, according to WMUR.
“. . . This budget builds on the important steps we’ve taken to begin holding down the cost of higher education, increasing funding over the biennium by $13 million at the university system and by $6.5 million at our community colleges compared to Fiscal Year 2015,” Gov. Hassan said in her official proposal.
“With this renewed commitment to our colleges and universities, we believe the leadership of both systems should work as hard as possible to hold down the cost of tuition,” she continued in her budget address.
New Hampshire’s public universities have had the highest average in-state tuition in the country since 2011, according to Kyla Calvert at PBS.
The final budget for the state will be decided by June 30 and will go into effect July 1, so in-state students will probably have to wait until then to see if the current tuition freeze continues.
The Equinox plans to follow-up on tuition changes in a story next week.
Skyler Frazer can be contacted at sfrazer@kscequinox.com
