Indiana Law School Seeks 24.5% Tuition Boost
Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law is proposing a tuition hike of 24.5 percent for in-state students.
Tuition would increase from $19,988 to $24,000 a year if the idea is approved, the Indianapolis Star reports. The newspaper notes that the higher tuition is still a good deal, since the school is one of the cheapest among the country’s top-ranked schools.
The law school was ranked 23rd in April by U.S. News & World Report. Tuition is more than $40,000 at all of the schools ranked in the top nine by the magazine.
Dean Lauren Robel cited three reasons for a tuition boost. The school’s endowment is impaired by the recession, state funding is static, and the school’s fixed expenses are increasing.
“What you’re seeing here,” Robel told the Star, “is the long-term impact of the decline of the state appropriation as a percentage of our budget.”
