The 10 state universities are hoping to freeze tuition for a fifth consecutive year while Pennsylvania's state grant awards could decline if more state funding doesn't come through.
Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania students planning to enroll in higher education next year face some uncertainty about how much they will have to pay or borrow to attend college next year.
As for the state grants, the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency’s board of directors on Thursday approved a grant distribution formula based on the assumption that the state appropriation will remain at this year’s level of $331.4 million. Susquehanna University President Jonathan Green, a PHEAA board member, said this uncertainty in funding for the grant program could lead to the state’s poorest families borrowing additional money while waiting on the state budget to get finalized.
Under the grant formula the PHEAA board adopted, the maximum grant for students attending a community college or technical school would be $2,801; a State System university, $4,482; Penn State, Pitt, Temple or Lincoln university, $4,818, and a private university, $5,266. The minimum grant awarded to students is $500.
“Hopefully we can provide them the resources in the final [budget] product that they won’t have to go through with a tuition hike,” Pittman said. “To me, the State System as a whole, as it continues to lose population needs to become more competitive now more than ever in terms of what their cost is and obviously raising tuition doesn’t do that.”
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