TUITION MAY JUMP $500 IN VA.

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, January 20, 1992                   TAG: 9201200053
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short
TUITION MAY JUMP $500 IN VA.
Full-time students at Virginia's public colleges and universities could pay $500 more to attend school next year.
The State Council of Higher Education said Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University all could increase tuition and fees for state residents by that much.
Increases of at least 8.5 percent, or just under $400 in one case, are projected at the state's other public institutions.
Out-of-state students are likely to face similar increases.
Final charges are set by the individual institutions. Charges will depend on whether the governor's budget proposal is approved by the General Assembly. They also depend on whether the schools raise tuition and fees to the maximum levels authorized in the governor's budget.
Gov. Douglas Wilder has recommended colleges and universities be allowed to raise a total of $217.2 million by increasing tuition and fees during the 1992-94 biennium.
Schools already have raised prices this school year in the face of state budget cuts.
Statewide, the average tuition-and-fee increase under the governor's proposal would be 15.2 percent for the 1992-93 academic year and 9.0 percent for 1993-94.
The maximum allowable increases vary from school to school, depending on enrollment, staffing and other variables.
The maximum increases for full-time students range from 8.5 percent at Virginia Military Institute to 19 percent at George Mason University.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB