The Board of Regents passed a tuition freeze for in-state, undergraduate students today at a special board meeting. Increases for out of state students do not exceed 4%, and increases for graduate and professional students do not exceed 7%.
The tuition freeze marks the fifth year of the same tuition for in-state undergraduates with the fourth straight freeze. In a time when other states are considering massive increases in tuition to offset loss in state support revenue, Maryland has maintained state funding to make higher education more affordable for families.
Check out this article in The Sun .
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12 comments:
What kind of freeze are u talkin' about, when in fact, as it appears from your article, they just authorized increasin' it further 4%?!!
That's OUTRAGEOUS!!!
Maryland tuition rates are already one of the highest in the nation!
Tyron: Thanks for your comments. Tuition increases about 4% each year. The State has bought down tuition for in-state students. In comparison, increases aren't too bad...New York 12%, California 10%, Georgia 25%. The USM student council expressed concerns about a loss of quality with a tuition freeze. What are your thoughts?
I agree with Tyron!
@Josh Michael,
while the other states may increase their tuition more than us, they are still nowhere near highly inflated MD tuition rates. Speaking of California... Did you realize that both UCLA and UC-Berkeley (widely considered to be the best public universities in the whole nation) cost a lot less to attend than any of the public schools here in Maryland for the in-state residents?
The 4% increase only applies to *out* of state students. In-state tuition for Maryland students remains the same. Which is a lot better than what it appears some states are doing.
With the way the economy is, I was almost certain tuition was going to rise this time. But I'm grateful that it didn't. As for the increases for out of state students, I don't really think that's a problem. If you want to come stay in our state without actually living here and such, you don't have the right to the same state funding in-state student have. If you have a problem with the prices, perhaps you should have went to a school in your home state then?
However, I AM still struggling to get by so I suppose we'll just see what happens. Unfortunately with Maryland, if they don't take money from you in one avenue, they'll make sure to take it from you in something else.
As for loss of quality, I've never seen much "quality" in anything in Maryland so there isn't much to lose. But quality will inevitably decrease because we aren't getting as much money as other students in other states. They may have higher tuitions, but they are guaranteed more for their money. Then again, that's coming from an inner city kid whose only seen the bad side of life here in Maryland. Maybe there's some good, I'm not sure.
Si said:
"...Unfortunately with Maryland, if they don't take money from you in one avenue, they'll make sure to take it from you in something else."
SO TRUE!!!
@Si:
Of course you don't have a problem with out of state tuition increases; you don't have to pay it!
Have you ever looked at the qualifications to be considered for in-state tuition? Simply living in the state for X amount of time does not grant you instate tuition.
This page is in regards to filing for FAFSA, but is also how UMBC determines in-state tuition. Question #2 is where you want to look.
http://www.umbc.edu/financialaid/faq.html
Now, I lived in Maryland for 2.5 years before my father was transferred by the military to another state. I have always preferred Maryland to Ohio and found the colleges here more suitable to my needs, so I came back to MD.
Can you really sit here and tell me I don't have the same right as you to funding because my parents don't live in the state (yet, I do live here), because I am neither 24, a graduate student, married, nor a member of the Armed Forces, because I do not have a child, because I was not a ward of state?
As a resident of MD, you had opportunities to earn internships in high school through places like NIH, Hopkins, and so on. You also have chances at many wonderful scholarships that are available to MD high schoolers and in-state undergraduates only. That money they take from you in "every avenue possible" is actually only taken from you in some ways and returned to you via several other.
Finally, people assume that out of state students will be here for four years and then dip out as fast as possible. This is true for some people, but what about people like me? I have two jobs at the moment and plan to go to grad school at JHU. Again, you think just because I don't have instate status that I don't want to live here in YOUR state and don't deserve at least a tuition freeze?
Lauren, I'm a resident of this damn state since 2002 and have YET to see any scholarships!!!
And so-called internships... lol. Let's just say, I'd rather flip burgers at McDonalds and earn actual money. In these tough financial times, we are a lot more concerned about surviving & getting an actual paying job rather than some temporary unpaid b.s. on our resumes. We got bills to pay!!!
@Lauren: Please do note that I DID say, "If you want to come stay in our state without actually living here and such, you don't have the right to the same state funding in-state student have."
If you have lived here before going to college here, then in my books you are in-state (though if you moved to another state and stayed there a while, I fail to see how you can possibly consider yourself in-state, but whatever). But I can't magically change the way Maryland works nor do I really care to. No offense, but I have my own things to worry about. Like I said, if they aren't taking money from us through tuition, they'll take our money from us somewhere else and they don't "give it back".
As someone who went through all the scholarship bull, I haven't gotten any sort of benefits from being in-state other than that lesser tuition. My grant (Pell Grant) is from the federal government. I've lived here all of my life; I think I would know if I was getting any wonderful benefit from living here. And I have never had any sort of internship opportunities in high school and I went to the best public high school in Baltimore City. I don't know what sort of place you're staying at in Maryland, but it was NEVER like that for me.
Again, I'm still struggling to get by, so you can't tell me that Maryland is giving all they can to me to help me. They aren't. I still have bills to pay (tuition included), I still have mouths to feed (yes, more than one), I still have family to help. Everyone is having a tough time right now, I never denied that, so why are you?
In the end, if in-state students have to suffer for being in this state, so does out of state students. We just suffer in different ways.
Did anybody else recently receive a letter in the mail from MHEC saying that you qualify for aid but there are no funds available?!
@ Anna-- check out this article. Do you know any in-state student that pays over 25k for education at a USM institution? UMCP is 18k when living on campus, Towson 13k, UMBC 19k.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc30-2009apr30,0,4681556.story
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