Refund policies and practices at universities and four-year and two-year colleges that are members of the Higher Education Panel of the American Council on Education were surveyed. The focus was on policies regarding freshmen students who terminate their studies before completing their first term. Usable responses were received from 580 institutions, or 91 percent, and the data from responding institutions were statistically adjusted to represent the population of colleges and universities that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Policy, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Instructional Student...
In order to assess the adequacy of the standardized budgets used by the Financial Aid Office at Iowa State University, they were compared with the self-reported budgets of a selected group of student aid recipients. Instructional and noninstructional expenses, state residency, marital status, and dependency status were considered. (JMD)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgets, College Students, Educational Research, Expenditures, Financial Aid...
Information on the costs of attending different types of postsecondary institutions are presented in 18 tables showing average expenses for resident students, both those living in campus housing and those in private housing, commuting students, and self-supporting students. Also presented are data showing how postsecondary educational expenses are increasing and how expenses vary by region. Some findings are: (1)-the overall increase in total expenses for resident students at all types of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgets, Community Colleges, Commuting Students, Directories, Educational Finance,...
This report is an update, as of January 2001, of the status of California's state laws regarding mandatory and optional community college student fees. Key points include: (1) specific statutory authority is required to charge any fee that is required for registration, enrollment, entry into class, or completion of the required objectives of a course; (2) a basic enrollment fee is specifically authorized by statute, which was amended by Assembly Bill 1118 to reduce the fee to $11 per unit,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Distance Education, Educational Legislation, Fees, In State...
This is a report documenting tuition and required fees, room rates, and board rate increases at member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). The report shows that median prices have increased in 1971-72 over 1970-71 costs for both resident and nonresident students. Tuition and required fees at NASULGC institutions have risen 8.80% for residents and 16.99% for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Costs, Educational Finance, Fees, Higher Education, Student Costs, Tuition
This report presents trend data for institutions of the State University of New York (SUNY) involving fixed and variable charges that are required of all full-time students, including tuition, college fees, activity fees, room and board, and supplies and other costs. Most of the report consists of statistical tables listing the trends in all basic student charges for students at all institutions that comprise the SUNY since 1980, and giving the fixed costs since the inception of the standard...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Fees, Full Time Students, Graduate Study,...
These are tables documenting tuition and required fees, room rates, and board rates at member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, by state for 1971-72. The figures given are for typical full-time undergraduate students for 2 semesters, 2 trimesters, or 3 quarters. The 1970-71 rates are also given when they differ from those of 1971-72. Tuition and required fees for residents (of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Costs, Educational Finance, Fees, Higher Education, Student Costs, Tuition
This paper offers a detailed explanation of Yale University's tuition postponement option. The purposes of the Plan are: (1) to enable students to defer part of the expense of education; (2) to enable students to contribute to the support of the University in approximate proportion to their ability to do so and to the economic benefit they have derived from their Yale education; and (3) to help meet Yale's immediate need for increased funds to defray sharply rising costs. The principal elements...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Higher Education, Student Costs, Tuition
Starting from the viewpoint that a sound analysis of the real costs of distance education neglects hidden costs (social, medical, and psychological), this study surveyed a sample of 2,500 students in an effort to determine the magnitude of these hidden costs. It was found that a normal part-time student invests DM 19,000 in 8 years. This figure increases to DM 33,000 when additional costs associated with child care and household maintenance are considered. It is argued that a tax reduction for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Student...
This report provides financial data for higher education in New York State for the most current 5 years, 1985-86 through 1989-90, as well as established data for 2 more years. The report uses data collected from all New York State degree-granting institutions through the standardized Department's Higher Education Data System. Notes on this report indicate that in making data in earlier years more comparable to the most current year, the earlier data have been recalculated when necessary to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Financial Support, Higher Education,...
This report contains a comprehensive listing of basic student charges for academic year 1990-91 at over 4,700 4-year, 2-year, and public less-than-2-year postsecondary institutions. Typical tuition and required fees are provided for in-state and out-of-state students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, along with the costs for room and board, and the number of meals per week covered by the board charge. Tables give summary national statistics on tuition and required fees for the academic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Colleges, Community Colleges, Fees, Higher Education, Instructional Student Costs,...
Between 1974-75 and 1975-76, American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) member tuition and fees averaged increases of 5.5 percent for undergraduate and graduate state resident students and 3.7 percent for undergraduate and graduate nonresident students. Room-and-board rates averaged increases of 8.3 percent. AASCU institutions in most states did not substantially increase undergraduate tuition and fees. However, increases greater than 10 percent occurred in 10 states. This...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Higher Education, In State Students, Instructional Student Costs,...
Considerations for establishing a system for indexing tuition and fees to the cost of education and implications for state policy are examined. It is suggested that the attraction of the indexing approach to tuition arises from a number of causes including the upward pressure on tuition created by changing demographic and fiscal conditions. Results of a survey of current state policies for determining tuition indicated that 30 of the states do not have an established policy for determining...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Budgeting, College Students, Cost Indexes, Educational Finance,...
With data retrieved from the Common Core of Data collection of surveys, this report presents revenues and expenditures for public elementary and secondary education in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories for school year 2000-01. Two pie charts display revenues by source and current expenditures by function. Seven tables report the following information: (1) revenues for public elementary and secondary schools by source and state; (2) percentage distribution of revenue...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student,...
This document presents data concerning the public and private 2- and 4-year colleges and universities in the state of Virginia. All data included in the report are for the academic year beginning September 1972. Information presented includes enrollment data, institutional charges, and degree programs offered. (HS)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, Enrollment, Higher Education, Statewide Planning, Statistical Data,...
This is a table documenting tuition and required fees, room rates, and board rates at member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, by state, for 1969-70. The figures given are for typical full-time undergraduate students for 2 semesters, 2 trimesters, or 3 quarters. The 1968-69 rates are also given when they differ from those of 1969-70. Tuition and required fees for residents (of the respective state or district) for 1969-70 vary from $70 at the District...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Costs, Data, Educational Finance, Fees, Higher Education, Student Costs, Tuition
This is a table documenting cost of tuition and/or required fees, room, and board at member institutions of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, by state, for 1969-70. The figures given are rates for typical full-time undergraduate students for 2 semesters, 2 trimesters, or 3 quarters. 1968-69 rates are also given when they differ from those of 1969-70. For those institutions charging differing tuition and/or required fees for resident and non-resident...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Costs, Data, Educational Finance, Fees, Higher Education, Student Costs, Tuition
This Factsheet highlights recent changes in student fee levels and compares California's student charges to other states. In doing so, it presents responses to the following questions: (1) What does the California State University charge graduate students? (2) What does the University of California charge graduate students? (3) What has the Governor proposed in terms of changes to resident graduate student fees for the 2006-07 fiscal year? and (4) Who are resident students?
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, In State Students, Student Costs, State Universities, Fees
This report offers statistics and trends on educational costs at degree-granting institutions in New York State from 1986-87 to 1990-91. The report uses data collected from all New York State degree-granting institutions through the Department's Higher Education Data System (HEDS). Section I provides a general overview of state fiscal support over 5 years in total dollars and as a proportion of total state revenues. Section II shifts the focus from state funds to amounts and share of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accounting, Costs, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Trends,...
This report discusses eligibility for a new Federal income tax exclusion created by the Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988 for U.S. savings bonds used to pay qualified higher education expenses. The exclusion enables eligible taxpayers to leave out of their gross income the interest earned on series EE savings bonds that are used for tuition and required fees, net of scholarships, for themselves or their spouses or dependents. Taxpayers must be at least 24 years of age and the full...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Eligibility, Family Income, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Student Costs, Tax...
The development of indicators of the price of tuition, room, and board at U.S. colleges during academic years 1972-1973 through 1979-1980 is discussed. Attention is directed to purposes and premises of the indicators, basic concepts of price and student expenses, major implications and indications evaluated during 1972-1980, and future research and potential applications of the findings. Different methodologies for studying price changes as they might be applied to expenses facing the student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Cost Indexes, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends, Higher...
This report examines various aspects of financial aid including financial need as the basis for financial aid to students and the problem of inadequate funds. Recommendations suggest: (1) When forms are administered to the students, more guidance is needed to make them aware of the differences in the two systems presently serving the colleges and universities. The American College Testing Program (ACT) and College Scholarship Service of the College Entrance Examination Board (CSS). (2) Forms...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Financial Needs, Financial Support, Higher Education, Student Costs, Jackson, Linda M.
This factsheet describes the estimated total cost of attending a public university in California. This total cost includes all required institutional charges, on-campus room and board, books and supplies, transportation, clothes, and personal expenses. For attending a campus of California State University, the total cost is estimated to be an average of $10,468 for the 1999-2000 academic year. The estimated total cost at one of the University of California's 9 campuses was $14,327. The average...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Paying for College, Public Colleges, State Universities, Student...
This brief report presents data from the sixth triennial survey of adult education conducted as part of the May 1984 Current Population Survey. The narrative provides information on the characteristics of adult education participants, courses and providers, reasons for taking adult education courses, and adult education course costs. These data tables are included: adult education participation by selected characteristics (age, race/ethnicity, school years completed, annual family income, labor...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Students, Participant Characteristics, Statistics, Student...
Following a detailed review of present tuition and financial aid policies, the Committee on Tuition and Other Student Costs focused on recommended changes in policy and the implication of such policies on the costs to students of access to higher education opportunities. The committee affirmed its belief that an important goal of the Board of Higher Education should be the "availability of educational opportunity without regard to financial status and the elimination of financial barriers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Opportunities, Financial Support, Graduate Students, Higher Education, In...
This report provides California Postsecondary Education Commission recommendations for developing a long-term fee policy for the state's community colleges. Following background information on the legislative mandate to review postsecondary fee policies, demographic and fiscal challenges confronting California are described, indicating that the increasing numbers of students are threatening the state's goal of affordable education for all. The Commission's philosophy regarding access for all...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Educational Economics, Educational Finance,...
The study estimated per pupil expenditures for a stratified random sample of 571 special education students in three metropolitan school districts--Charlotte-Mecklenburg (North Carolina), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), and Rochester (New York). The study used data collected in 1982-83 from parent interviews, teacher interviews, and the student's school record. The distribution of estimated per pupil expenditures was examined overall and by primary handicap, by placement, by study site, and by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Instructional...
The purposes of this study were twofold: (1) to examine existent tuition and fee policy in South Carolina in order to determine why these charges are high, and (2) to consider whether the practice of escrowing tuition results in undesirable consequences. The study includes close definition of the terms "tuition" and "fees" and an analysis of the uses of tuition and required fees by peer group institutions to determine whether South Carolina's relatively high charges are due...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Fees, Higher Education, Instructional...
This study weighs the validity of current arguments about the efficiency of public versus private schooling by critically examining the research that has compared the expenditures of public and private schools and by questioning common assumptions in the debate. Simple comparisons of per-pupil costs are found to be misleading as indicators of educational services because they do not include the publicly-mandated programs required of public schools, nor the donated resources by which private...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Educational Economics, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary...
A brief summary is presented of the 1988 surveys of states regarding the legislative implementation of savings plans (mostly state and local tax-free bonds) and guaranteed tuition plans as methods of advance payment for college. The 10 states that have passed savings bills are listed, three of which (Illinois, North Carolina and North Dakota) have implemented their plans, and the 8 states that have passed guaranteed tuition bills are listed. A brief summary of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Legislation, Higher Education,...
The contents of this report present an initial attempt to assess the statewide direction toward implementation of selected fees. A questionnaire was developed by a Los Angeles Community College District ad hoc committee examining fee status and sent to all California community colleges. Eighty-eight (89%) of the colleges responded to the survey questionnaire. The findings indicate a tendency toward implementation of only certain types of fees. During the 1973-74 school year, student body...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Fees, Postsecondary Education, Questionnaires, State Surveys,...
Public discussion has never witnessed such a welter of proposals for dealing with problems of higher educational finance--proposals for shifting the burden of financing from the present to the future, from the taxpayer to the student, from aiding the institutions to aiding the students, from aid based on need to vouchers for everyone. At its 1974 annual meeting, the Southern Regional Education Board devoted a major session to consideration of the whole issue of how higher education should be...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conference Reports, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Financial Support,...
California charges its own residents less to attend its public colleges and universities than it charges nonresidents. All three of California's public postsecondary education segments charge resident students a systemwide enrollment fee. In addition, the California State University and the University of California also charge students mandatory, campus-based fees. These campus-based fees help support student services such as counseling, student union activities, student government, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Public Colleges, Noninstructional Student Costs, Undergraduate...
The tables in this report present data on the typical charges to students for the academic year 1968-69. Included are data on tuition and required fees, room and board, classified by the students' level (Undergraduate or graduate), sex (for room and board charges only), and residence. The institutions making these charges are classified by institutional size, control, and level of offering. In addition, the tables differentiate between charges for in-state and out-of-state students. (Author/HS)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Costs, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Statistical Data, Student Costs,...
The Educational Opportunity Bank (EOB) has received short shrift among educators and many objections have been raised to establishing it. Among these are the workability of the plan, the problem for women borrowers, and the creation of a new force--student financial power - in opposition to the influence of the Federal Government. Though important, these are secondary questions. A MIT study has concluded that the plan is economically feasible, but questions concerning the legitimacy, adequacy,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Student Costs, Student Loan Programs, Jellema,...
Fees for graduate students at California's public colleges and universities have risen over the last several years, but are still lower than fees at comparable universities in other states. Fees for full-time graduate students at the California State University were $4,163 in 2007-08. This amount consists of $3,414 in systemwide fees plus mandatory campus fees that average $749. The campus fees help support student services such as counseling, student union activities, student government, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Universities, Public Colleges, Graduate Students, Fees, Higher Education, Comparative...
The emerging trend in state higher education finance policy to use and index to establish tuition and fee levels at public institutions was studied, based on a 1980 national survey of tuition-setting policies. It was found that, increasingly, states are adopting indexing to cost of education as an established policy for determining tuition: 14 states index tuition to the cost of education, 3 states index tuition to a specific measure, 30 states do not have an established policy for determining...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Budgeting, Cost Indexes, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment...
A report with tabular presentations of tuition and fee charges for full-time, full-year attendance at public institutions of higher education in 15 western states and for resident out-of-district and nonresident students at two-year institutions offers the following highlights: tuition and fee charges for students at public institutions in the west continued to increase in 1989-90; for resident in-district students at two-year institutions, the full-time tuition and fee charges averaged $729 in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Fees, Full Time Students, Higher Education, In State Students,...
This report, the fourth in a series of comparative data studies of public community and junior colleges in the United States, presents information derived from a sample of 420 colleges. After introductory material presents background on the study and its objectives, chapter 1 outlines possible uses of the study data, points out limitations and the potential for institutional comparisons, and offers a summary of findings. Sample findings include: (1) half of the institutions spent more than 61%...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgets, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Enrollment,...
Survey results are presented of tuition, room and board charges at member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). The findings indicate that it will cost more for the average student at state colleges and universities to attend school this year than last year, but the rise in most student charges is not as dramatic as was the increase between last year and the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Higher Education, State Colleges, State...
Comparative financial information for fiscal year (FY) 1983-84 is presented in this report, derived from two surveys of a sample of 560 public community and junior colleges. Chapter 1 provides guidance on the use of the report in comparing institutional statistics with national and peer group medians; points out limitations of the data; and summarizes findings in the areas of expenditures, revenues, service area, and staffing. Chapters 2 and 3 present data on the medians and quartiles for the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgets, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Enrollment,...
Academic training programs in the field of outdoor education and recreation have increased considerably in the past few decades, but their true costs are often hidden. A survey of 15 outdoor college programs in the United States and Canada examined special fees associated with outdoor courses. The cost of necessary personal equipment and clothing was also researched by surveying 30 outdoor adventure education majors to determine the equipment needed and then pricing those items at three...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Certification, College Programs, Equipment, Fees, Higher Education, Outdoor...
The low tuition system has worked so well for so long that it should not be abandoned on the basis of very limited data and even more limited assumptions. The rights of millions of college students to a low tuition education should not be bargained away in the name of some notion of "higher educational consensus" or "healthy dialogue." Nor should this right be bargained away in the name of aid to low income students or in the name of student choice. An emphasis on student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Equal Education, Federal Programs, Financial Support, Higher Education, Public...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Methods, Student Costs, Student Loan Programs,...
A hearing was held to hear testimony on the rising costs of postsecondary education. Since the early 1980s, tuition and fees of postsecondary institutions have outpaced increases in the rate of inflation and family incomes. Every year, these cost hikes have been two to three times the rate of inflation, and the hearing was intended to explore issues associated with the costs of higher education. Following opening statements by Representative John A. Boehner and Representative George Miller,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Fees, Higher Education, Inflation (Economics), Paying for College,...
The Missouri Commission on Higher Education conducted its sixth annual survey of four-year public institutions in 17 Middle Western and border states to determine what fees, except those for laboratory and breakage, were charged to students for the regular academic year. Only one of the 129 institutions queried failed to respond. Those participating in the survey are located in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dining Facilities, Dormitories, Fees, Higher Education, State Colleges, State...
The quality of American higher education is being seriously threatened by economic pressures that are unlikely to be relieved in the near future. As undesirable as it may be, it appears that more and more of the costs of education will have to be borne by the college and university students. The Yale University Tuition Postponement Option Plan was created to help relieve both the student and the university of some of their financial problems. The central characteristic of the Yale plan is that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education, Scholarships, Student...
Washington state law directs the state's Higher Education Coordinating Board to recommend state tuition and fee policies to the Governor and Legislature. As part of its analysis, the Board conducts an annual survey of tuition and fee rates at public colleges and universities in all 50 states to determine how Washington state tuition and fees compare both nationally and with other western states. Also examined is how tuition and fees at individual institutions compare with tuition and fees...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Fees, Higher Education, Paying for College, State Colleges,...
Tuition for resident students at state and land-grant universities increased less in fall 1972 than it has for any fall since 1968. Two universities even put tuition decreases into effect. The slowdown in the amount of increase in student charges is based on responses to a survey from 98 of the 101 multi-campus institutions holding membership in the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. Among these institutions, the median annual charge for tuition and required...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Fees, Higher Education, State Colleges, State Universities, Statistical Data, Student...
This analysis, based on data from multiple sources, examines the affordability of higher education in the United States. The report contains information on public and private education, but the emphasis is on public colleges and universities, and the implications primarily affect the states. The principal basis for assessing the affordability of higher education is to examine tuition and other costs of attending college in relation to family income. This analysis suggests that most families...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Parent Attitudes, Parents, Paying for College, Student Costs,...
