North Dakota’s surplus of more than $1 billion could be used on many positive things for the state. It is also a factor attracting more people to purchase homes and rent apartments in North Dakota. The state legislature will be looking at basic needs first such as roads, health care and education, according to an article published in the Bismarck Tribune.
Lawmakers proposed reducing the price of higher education, saying college needs to be more affordable in the state.
The board of higher education, in its budget proposal for 2009-11, freezes tuition for two-year schools and limits the four-year institutions to tuition increases of no more than 4 percent, and put $14 million into tuition assistance. Gov. John Hoeven suggests tuition increases might be limited to the rate of inflation, and wants to inject $40 million into tuition assistance.
A student’s share of costs (tuition and fees) at the University of North Dakota and North Dakota State University is 60 to 62 percent. At Minot State University, students pay 47 percent of the cost. At Dickinson, Mayville and Valley City, students pay 32 to 51 percent. And at the state two-year campuses, students pay 31 to 51 percent.
The Board of Higher Education wants students at Bismarck State College to pay 25 percent of costs. It is a two-year community college. Students currently pay 60 percent of costs at UND and NDSU, and the board wants to bring that number down to 40 percent.
Generally, people agree the tuition and fees paid by students needs to decrease.
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