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New Jersey College Costs Rise, But Jumps Not as Bad as Rest of U.S.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003
By William Conroy, Asbury Park Press, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 22--The cost of going to college in New Jersey keeps going up, but it's not going up at some schools this year as sharply as it is around the rest of the country.
Steady increases in the cost of going to college have worsened in recent years as cash-strapped states have cut back on education funding, according to a new report that says tuition and fees for in-state students at four-year public campuses jumped 14.1 percent, to $4,694 this academic year.
The typical in-state student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, one of the schools coping with a cut in state funding, will pay $7,929 in tuition and fees, an 8.5 percent increase from last year....
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