Oregon Live
By Andrew Theen
March 4, 2017
Two of Oregon's largest public universities are considering double-digit tuition increases this fall, moves with the potential to affect more than 24,000 in-state students.
The University of Oregon's governing board on Thursday approved a plan to raise in-state tuition for undergraduate students by 10.6 percent this fall, the largest increase since the 2010 academic year. Portland State University may be looking at a comparable increase.
The moves would translate into hundreds of dollars for each full-time student. A full-time student at PSU would have to shell out an additional estimated $700 a year for tuition, to $7,722. At UO, the annual tuition would climb by $945, to $9,855.
Neither proposal includes potentially costly increases to student fees or the cost of food or housing. READ FULL ARTICLE