Five Graduate Schools Plan Tuition Increases

Students in the Medical and Dental Schools, the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, Education and Public Administration face tuition increases in 1960.

Tuition for the Medical and Dental Schools will rise from the current $1,250 to $1,500. Rates in the GSAS, Education and Public Administration will increase from $1,000 to $1,250.

Entering students in the Medical School last year were paying $1,000 in tuition; with the planned 1960 increase, the School will have jumped its rates by a third in three years.

One of the chief reasons for this increase, Medical School officials say, is their student financial aid program. During the past decade, financial aid to medical students has gone up 740 per cent. During the same period, tuition rates went up only 73 per cent. Since 62 per cent of the School's tuition money is used for financial aid, officials feel the raise is justified.

Endowment income for both the Medical and Dental Schools rose only 99 percent during a period when total expenses increased 166 per cent.

School authorities pointed out that faculty salaries must be increased and rising dining hall and dormitory expenses must be met. A "corresponding rise in student scholarships and loan funds will accompany the tuition increase," one said.

The GSAS and the Graduate Schools of Education and Public Administration give similar reasons for their $250 tuition increases. The GSAS and School of Education report "necessary" rises in student aid and faculty salaries.

"We are following the GSAS' lead in this," Don K. Price, Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration, declared. "With so many of the Public Administration students taking courses from the GSAS, we simply have to have the same tuition rate."