Trustees approve 3% tuition increase for Minnesota State colleges, universities

Jun 20, 20190

Glen Stubbe – Star Tribune count

Students at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul listened in a microbiology class as Dr. Gwantwa Mwakalundwa talked them through the steps in their lab for counting bacteria in a sample.

The 37 universities and community colleges in the Minnesota State system are hiking their tuition by 3% this fall amid persistent enrollment declines.

On Wednesday, the system's board of trustees backed a $2.1 billion budget for the system, which over the past decade has lost almost a fifth of its enrollment. Another projected dip in enrollment this fall will likely mean less revenue from tuition despite the new higher rates.

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