Alex Friedrich
Kust how far will the University of Minnesota go to pull off another tuition freeze? It depends. Read more →
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MPR News reporter Tim Pugmire is reporting on Gov. Mark Dayton’s revised budget, which includes this higher-ed tidbit: Tax Relief for Students. The Governor’s tax plan would provide 285,000 recent college graduates up to $190 per year by deducting their student loan interest. Another 40,000 current college students and parents would receive a tuition deduction Read more →
University of Minnesota regents recently kicked around ideas on how to lighten the tuition burden on students and motivate them to finish their degrees within four years. One of those ideas is the fixed-tuition (or guaranteed-tuition) plan, in which students who opt in pay the same tuition their fourth year that they pay in their Read more →
The University of St. Thomas School of Law said today it’s freezing tuition next fall — and implementing a de-facto tuition cut — making it one of a handful of private Minnesota higher-ed institutions in the past few years to announce such moves. (Close to 30 colleges and universities have done the same around the Read more →
Kristin Vogel, director of undergraduate admission for Concordia University in St. Paul, tells the Star Tribune the university’s decision last year to cut tuition by $10,000 has turned out to be a good one. She says the number of new students has increased 65 percent, and the school benefitted financially. “This was the right move for a Read more →
The Rochester Post-Bulletin writes why MnSCU’s recent tuition freeze gives its community colleges a competitive boost: You don’t have to be an accounting major to realize that spending two years at a community college can save you tens of thousands of dollars. By capping tuition now, Minnesota will widen the price disparity between state and Read more →
At the last University of Minnesota (UMN) Board of Regents meeting, I tweeted the concerns that regent Laura Brod expressed with the U’s move to give in-state tuition rates to unauthorized immigrant students who live in Minnesota. The state Legislature had set that tuition change in motion this spring when it passed the so-called “Minnesota Read more →
At the risk of starting this debate anew, I’m wondering what the cost structure would look like if the PSEO-to-University-of-Minnesota option were charted, along with PSEO-to-private-college path. I’ve been told PSEO students would naturally gravitate toward those types of institutions. Are those paths possible? Would be worth a call. (Read: I’ve got a call in.) Read more →
You might recall that after I posted MnSCU‘s chart on how much it cost to take various paths toward a bachelor’s degree, I got a couple of comments about how little some private-college students pay after all the financial aid is factored in. I put in a call to the communications director of the Minnesota Read more →
The graphic above is the University of Minnesota‘s response to “The Benson Chart,” which is an attempt by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system to show the net cost of tuition for students from various income levels. (I’d wondered in my post whether the U had a similar chart handy. ) I’m reposting Read more →