Kansas Regents Zero Out Tuition Hikes For In-State Undergrads

The Kansas Board of Regents pressured state university officials to rethink hiking tuition, and the schools did just that.

In-state tuition for undergraduates at all state campuses will be flat or reduced after the regents approved revised rates Wednesday. Though some graduate and out-of-state students will see modest tuition increases.

Regents Chair Dennis Mullin thanked university officials for scaling back their tuition proposals, which he said comes with “punishment and pain.”

“I still fundamentally come down to the fact that we have to keep the cost of education as minimal as we can,” Mullin said.

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