Purdue announces 10th straight year of flat tuition

"‘Unprecedented’ has been used often in 2020. Purdue University is using it yet again – as the university announces it will keep its West Lafayette campus tuition frozen — at 2012-13 levels — through at least 2022-23, marking 10 straight years of no tuition increase — unprecedented at Purdue and in higher education during modern times.

President Mitch Daniels first announced that the university would not increase tuition in spring 2013, shortly after he became the 12th president of Purdue University. Before that, Purdue tuition had increased every year since 1976, and it rose an average of nearly 6% per year from 2002 through 2012.

Since 2013, Purdue students and their families have seen tuition remain flat and room and board rates drop from second highest in the Big Ten to the most affordable. Today, they pay less for total cost of attendance than they did in 2012.

In all, by spring 2023, some 60,000 students will have graduated from Purdue having never seen an increase in their tuition rates." …

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My D was one of those. She attended from 2013 until 2017 (engineering major who cooped). Excellent school. They aren’t real generous with scholarships but instate full price is around $20k and OOS around $39k (more for certain majors). It’s like getting a $15k scholarship upfront compared to other OOS Big Ten Engineering programs.

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My D is also wrapping up her senior year in engineering at the same cost level as freshman year.

(Cue the whining that this is misleading because the prices went up 10 years ago…there’s always someone)

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Honestly we were surprised they announced the freeze after all the spending that happened to safely have students back during Covid. Boiler Up!

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Nice piece on Forbes: If A Large Public Land Grant Can Freeze Tuition For 10 Years, So Can Every University

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