State funding currently covers 51 percent of costs, while tuition revenue pays for 47 percent.
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For the first time in more than four decades, Idaho students will not have to pay an increase in tuition and fees if they attend one of the state’s colleges or universities next year.
During a Boise-based news conference Thursday, the presidents of Idaho’s four-year institutions announced a tuition freeze for the 2020-21 school year for in-state undergraduate students. Fees will also not go up.
Idaho State University President Kevin Satterlee spoke on behalf of the presidents, stating discussions on the tuition freeze started last spring.
“(Students in Idaho) deserve an education that is going to challenge them as individuals, inspire them to make positive change in our communities and, ultimately, they deserve an education that will better their lives,” Satterlee said. “We must begin in earnest to address the issue of higher education affordability.”The cost of attending a higher education institution in Idaho is lower than in many other states already. According to Satterlee, only seven states offer lower in-state tuition rates.
But the annual increases to tuition and fees have become burdensome for students.