Tuition

University of North Carolina students who pay in-state rates are facing a more than $400 tuition increase, despite President Barack Obama's warning that schools could lose funding if they don't find ways to keep costs down.

This is the University of Washington’s new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from Washington State. And that, according to the dean of admissions, is how low-income Washingtonians — more than a quarter of the class — get a free ride.

In these lean times, the Milwaukee School of Engineering is offering a deal: Buy one degree, get a second degree free.

Higher education institutions are predictably cool to President Obama’s proposal to shift federal aid away from colleges that fail to control rising tuition. Even though the details of his plan, which would require Congressional approval, will not be fleshed out until later this month, the idea behind it is sound.

Program requires dependents to have attended Colo. high school for two years

Faced with yet another round of likely state budget cuts, the University of Missouri system wants to increase tuition next year by 7.5 percent at its flagship Columbia campus and even more at its campuses in St. Louis and Rolla.

University of Colorado geography professor Elizabeth Dunn said the seminar she teaches was once capped at 25 students. Most recently, it enrolled 108.

The presidents of Washington's three largest universities say President Barack Obama should be talking to state governments about college tuition, not complaining to them.

The cost of attending Princeton University is going up by 4.5 percent, the school’s largest hike in tuition and fees in six years. But the school’s governing body raised the amount of financial aid given to students to make up for the difference.

Boulder chancellor earned extra $49,000; some regents say they were misled