April 23, 2004

Maryland Universities Can Exceed Advertised Tuitions, State Appeals Court Rules

By PETER SCHMIDT

Maryland's public universities are under no obligation to charge the tuitions that they have advertised, a state appeals court ruled last week.

In a 5-to-2 decision, a panel of judges from the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that the University System of Maryland did not have a contractual obligation to maintain tuitions at the levels advertised to prospective students.

The ruling came in a class-action lawsuit brought by seven students from the system's campuses who had

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