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Student tuition and state funding nears 50-50 split in covering college costs
by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror March 10, 2013
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With the price tag to attend the state’s public universities likely to increase next year, Connecticut is about to cross a historic threshold in which students pay more than the state to cover the public institutions’ costs.
Tuition revenue last school year covered 47.5 percent of the costs at Connecticut’s public colleges and universities, a 3.5 percent increase from the previous year, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association outlines in their annual report released last week.
The state share has steadily decreased over the last 25 years. In 1987, tuition accounted for 20.3 percent of revenue. In 2002, tuition made up 32.2 percent of revenue.
Tuition dollars accounting for a higher proportion of higher education system’s budget is a national trend, the report finds.
See here for a chart of Connecticut’s history with tuition.
Jacqueline was CT Mirror’s Education and Housing Reporter, and an original member of the CT Mirror staff, joining shortly before our January 2010 launch. Her awards include the best-of-show Theodore A. Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in 2019 for reporting on inadequate inmate health care, first-place for investigative reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in 2020 for reporting on housing segregation, and two first-place awards from the National Education Writers Association in 2012. She was selected for a prestigious, year-long Propublica Local Reporting Network grant in 2019, exploring a range of affordable and low-income housing issues. Before joining CT Mirror, Jacqueline was a reporter, online editor and website developer for The Washington Post Co.’s Maryland newspaper chains. Jacqueline received an undergraduate degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s in public policy from Trinity College.
