Proposal calls for raising tuition in UW-Madison College of Engineering
The proposal, which will go before the UW Board of Regents next week, would eventually raise tuition by $1,400 per year in the College of Engineering. The money would go toward hiring more faculty and improving academic programs.
The School of Business was the first undergraduate school at UW-Madison to bump tuition higher, a practice known as differential tuition, when it required students to pay $500 more per semester this past school year.
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An engineering student group, the Polygon Engineering Student Council, voted last year to approve the measure.
The Polygon Engineering Student Council web site includes some documents discussing the issue.
In the other direction, Sen. Max Baucus has proposed: “free college tuition for math and science majors as part of a $25 billion education incentives package”
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[...] they need,” Peercy said in an interview. … The UW System Board of Regents approved an extra tuition charge of $700 a semester for engineering students to help the college offset higher costs of engineering instruction and to [...]