Pennsylvania State University is considering raising tuition, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, in part due to waning state support. Inquirer's Susan Snyder writes:
"At a meeting of the board of trustees’ finance committee on Thursday morning, the university’s budget task force presented a variety of proposals to raise fees, add surcharges and increase tuition differentials based on program, number of credits and year in school. Nursing, engineering and the sciences are among the programs that already carry tuition differentials.
There’s also a proposal to assess a fee on international students of $500 per semester and $360 per summer.
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