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<p>No, they would very much like to have lower in-state tuition. They lobby hard every year in Harrisburg for appropriation increases that are never received. In-state tuition at these schools is discounted by subsidization from the state. Unfortunately, the state’s appropriations have not kept up with inflation for years, and nationally, the trend is inflation in education has outpaced general inflation. Hence, Pitt, PSU and Temple are among the most expensive “public” schools in the nation by in-state sticker price. Pitt has the largest endowment, so it typically is the most generous with need and non-need based financial aid. The nature of these schools may end up becoming even more private if the state ends up cutting what little funding they do get. That is the worst case scenario and it may not play out. My point is that these schools are already privately governed. Administratively Pitt, PSU and Temple are already private and always have been. The leap, conceptually, isn’t that difficult for them from an administrative perspective; financially, the leap would be quite difficult in order of the size of each school’s endowment.</p>