National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators

Subcommittee Hearing Focuses on Lowering Tuition Costs While Improving Education Quality

College tuition is continuing to rise, but much faster than spending or costs, according to a report introduced by the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training in a hearing yesterday. Yesterday’s subcommittee hearing, entitled "Keeping College within Reach: Discussing Ways Institutions Can Streamline Costs and Reduce Tuition," was supplemented with a report by the Delta Project, an independent non-profit policy research organization,  that showed that even though the cost of tuition is rising – as much as 8.3 percent at public four-year universities in the past year - institutions enrolling the most students spend the least on their education.