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Students at Michigan’s public universities were hit with tuition increases higher than the rate of inflation this autumn even though their institutions got the biggest state aid boost in a decade.
That’s according to a report from the Michigan Legislature’s House Fiscal Agency, which found tuition increases at the state’s 15 public universities continued a decadelong trend of outstripping inflation.
Universities received an average state aid increase this year of 5.3 percent, the highest in a decade. Yet none of the institutions kept tuition below the year’s 2.2 percent increase in the cost of living, the report said.
Statewide, tuition went up an average of 3.6 percent.
