Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 2, 2011, Friday

Minneapolis Star Tribune

December 2, 2011, Friday

Minneapolis Star Tribune (full article)

U of M business school seeks higher tuition for its undergraduates

About 42 percent of public doctoral universities charged differential undergraduate tuition in 2010-11, according to a study to be published next year. Author Ronald Ehrenberg said the three most common degrees for which students pay extra are business, engineering and nursing.

Ehrenberg, director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, suspects that some universities, facing limited state support, might charge more in colleges with the greatest demand.

"If I'm a university administrator, I am going to consider reducing my state allocation to them and raising tuition if we could," he said. "That's easier to sell publicly than raising tuition for everybody."