At YSU, tuition freeze is official
YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown State University board of trustees approved a $158 million budget Friday, formalizing its call for no tuition increase.
A big part of the budget is a $2.9 million increase in the state’s appropriation to the university for the 2008 fiscal year, which begins next week.
One of the benefits of the state budget, approved Wednesday and outlined earlier today in the same room at Tod Hall by Gov. Ted Strickland, is that tuition for full-time YSU students will remain at $3,360 a semester both years.
That keeps YSU at around $1,700 less than Kent State, $1,200 less than the University of Akron and $1,900 less than the state average, university officials said.
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