Purdue University announced Monday that it would continue its tuition freeze through 2023, an extension which will mean 10 years without a tuition increase at the public land grant university.
The freeze began in 2013, shortly after university President Mitch Daniels took office.
Base yearly undergraduate tuition for in-state students is $9,992, while out-of-state tuition is $28,794. Conversely, those costs at Indiana University's Bloomington campus are $11,220 and $37,600, respectively.
According to a news release from Purdue, by 2023 around 60,000 Purdue students will have graduated without seeing a tuition increase.
“We said very early on that we believe strongly that our students and their families deserve a high-value education that they can afford and that we will fit our spending to their budgets — not the other way around. Purdue is a national leader in the value of its degrees, and we intend to increase that value further,” Daniels wrote in the release.
“Our story remains the same. As long as we are balancing our operating budget, growing our faculty, and investing in necessary projects, we see no good reason to charge our students more. Our commitment to affordability has helped save families millions of dollars and, coupled with prioritizing our investments, we continue to believe that Purdue is delivering higher education at the highest proven value.”
The continued freeze will have to be approved by Purdue trustees early next year.
