SUNY tuition measure a lift for UB | Buffalo Breeze

SUNY tuition measure a lift for UB

Buffalo Business First Monday 27th June, 2011

Tuition at public colleges and universities in New York will rise predictably for the first time ever and one local university is set to get $35 million in capital funding now that legislators in Albany have approved a tuition bill for the State University of New York system. The bill -- called the NY-SUNY 2020 Challenge Grant Act -- allows four-year colleges and university centers to raise tuition $300 per year for five years and increase out-of-state student tuition by 10 percent each year for five years. Tuition is currently set at $4,970 and could rise to $6,470 for in-state students by the 2015-16 school year. Additionally, the bill grants SUNY's four university centers, including the

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