January 6, 2006

Tuition: Some Increases Slow Down, but Concerns Linger

By SARA HEBEL

The improving state-budget picture in much of the nation has made many higher-education officials and policy makers optimistic that tuition increases will continue to slow in the coming year.

This academic year, for the second in a row, the average annual tuition increase at public colleges shrank from the year before. At public four-year colleges, tuition for 2005-6 rose by an average of 4.8 percent, when adjusted for inflation, down from 7.1 percent last year, according to College

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