OSU to continue in-state tuition freeze - Business First of Columbus:

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The university cited enrollment growth, $94 millionj in cost-saving measures over the past year, and continuedd state support as justifications for continuinhg itstuition freeze, whichb had been state-mandated until it was liftedf because of the cuts in state support. OSU’ freshman enrollment will reach 6,550 in the fall, an increasew of about 400 students from this past academic OSU spokesman Jim Lynch said that the questionh of raising tuition the followinfg yearis “way too and will depend on several including enrollment numbers, stated aid and the economy. The revisedf Ohio budget gives state schools such as OSU the option of raisingftuition 3.
5 percent each of the next two Tuition for Ohio resident undergradss will remain frozen at the 2006-07 level of $8,406 for the 2009-1p academic year but the freeze does not includse tuition for out-of-state students. The undergraduatr surcharge for non-Ohio residents at the Columbus campus willincrease 2.5 percent to $13,572, bringintg the annual tuition cost for a non-residen undergrad to $22,278. The university in June also approved a seriews of new student fees for activities and which will increase the annual priceto $8,706 for full-timre Ohio undergraduates. Room and board for three academic quarter will increaseby 4.
6 percent, or to an average of $8,409 depending on room type and meal Gov. Ted Strickland had vowed to halt tuition hikexsat two- and four-year state schoolsz this year, but lifted the freeze Friday after the state’x higher-education funding was cut by $170 milliojn as part of the compromise that led to passagse of the state’s $50.5 billion, two-yeaer budget.