Ohio State University Raising Tuition and Student Fees
“According to public meeting materials, the 3 percent increase is set to cost Ohio residents around $12,859 a year for tuition and fees, resulting in a nearly $374 change.”
It’s amazing that even with inflation hurting so many Americans, schools just keep raising their prices.
The Lantern reports:
University Board of Trustees Approves Raise in Tuition and Fees
Just over a month before students arrive on campus – some for the first time ever – the University Board of Trustees met Friday and approved a raise in tuition and fees for Ohio State’s incoming freshman class.
According to public meeting materials, the 3 percent increase is set to cost Ohio residents around $12,859 a year for tuition and fees, resulting in a nearly $374 change. Ohio law mandates a maximum undergraduate tuition fee increase of 3 percent for incoming in-state undergraduates.
Non-Ohio residents will see a more notable increase at 5.2 percent, set to cost around $38,365 a year for tuition and fees. This makes Ohio State the seventh most affordable university in the Big Ten for in-state and out-of-state undergraduates.
This is the seventh consecutive year the university has increased the cost of attendance, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
The tuition of returning undergraduates will not rise as the Ohio State Tuition Guarantee freezes tuition costs for each year of students.
Some of the increase — 0.4 percent —in undergraduate tuition will go to “investments in student wellness and mental health services,” according to public meeting materials.
The investments will expand peer-to-peer mentoring, educational programming, mental health awareness and response training, and suicide prevention and screening programs,according to a release.
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“The investments will expand peer-to-peer mentoring, educational programming, mental health awareness and response training, and suicide prevention and screening programs,according to a release“
I used to do psychiatric consultations for the Counseling Center of a university along the I-81 corridor.
Invariably, the clients were female, in the first year or two of college career, had gotten a bit flummoxed juggling (a) first time living away from home, (b) coursework demands, and (c) social life, especially on-again/off-again dating type things.
Long story short: I’d listen to the stories, and we’d usually end up phoning parent and agree to permit the kid to take a leave of absence in order to go home and regroup.
You want to see RELIEF on the face of an overwhelmed 19-yr-old? And a YUGE THANK YOU? That’s what I experienced.
But lol the college stopped using me. They wanted these kids medicated, and these kids to be encouraged to “work it out.” (as if the added issues associated with starting a pharmaceutical regimen would not add to these kids’ uncertainties and worries/smh)
Naively, I did not realize that the absolutely last thing that the college wanted was anyone stopping out or dropping out—even if that was what was best for the student.
If you haven’t gotten the message yet, America— Colleges are not your friends.
Why wouldn’t these institutions raise college fees? After all, these kids take out student loans, then Biden Admin finds ways to dismiss their obligations to repay the loans, so these colleges raise rates (free salary increase) on the tax payers….. no accountability for anything nowadays.
Investments in student health and wellness? I do not think so… 5% to student wellness programs, 95% to the college heads.
Inflation increases expenses of any operating entity whether for-profit or not. It’s a hellhole that should be kept closed at all costs…too late as we are in that spiral.
Ohio State still doesn’t require a pulse, I note.