Aerospace Engineer- Purdue, NCSU, Alabama, Embry Riddle, UCONN OPINIONS please!

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@RichInPitt

@ucbalumnus

Lots of state universities have had minimal or no tuition increases over the past 9 years. However, lots of them (Purdue included) had substantial tuition increases in the 4 years before that, due to the economic downturn that cut state tax revenue that caused states to reduce funding to universities.

Data please.

College Board’s Trends in College Pricing database of 12 years of tuition data (Table 6) turns up zero state universities with no increase since Purdue’s freeze, and only one in single digits. The 2012-2013 to 2019-2020 average increase was 28%.

Who are these "Lots of state universities " that you reference?

Note the word “minimal”.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/tuition-and-fees

From 2012 to 2018:

Western Washington University 8805->8132 (-7.6%)
University of Washington 12428->11517 (-7.3%)
CSULA 6839->6639 (-2.9%)
Purdue University 9900->9992 (+0.9%)
Indiana University 10033->10681 (+6.5%)
UCLA 12692->13774 (+8.5%)
CPI inflation 10000->10909 (+9.1%)

@RichInPitt

I’m also curious how much you think tuition increases in 2007 should impact current college decision making.

Economic downturns hurt state budgets, typically resulting in budget cuts to state universities, which they often make up with tuition increases.