UNC tuition will rise sharply

The News & Observer
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
By Eric Ferreri - Staff Writer

CHAPEL HILL -- A public university education in North Carolina just got considerably more expensive.  UNC system President Erskine Bowles has signed off on tuition increases for the coming academic year, an attempt to mitigate budget cuts recently imposed by the General Assembly.

What it means: Students at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University will pay $750 more in tuition in 2010-11.... At UNC-CH, for example, this year's $4,066 tuition for in-state undergraduates will rise 18 percent....  The state budget approved two weeks ago includes a $70 million cut in the university system's budget, which will be spread among the 16 college campuses and the N.C. School of Science and Math, a residential high school. The budget also allowed campuses to increase tuition by as much as $750 to mitigate the effects of the cuts.  UNC-CH and NCSU are the two largest campuses and received the biggest cuts - nearly $20 million each.  Click here to read more.