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The university cited enrollment growth, $94 million in cost-savinf measures over the past year, and continued statew support as justifications for continuing its tuition which hadbeen state-mandated until it was liftexd because of the cuts in state support. OSU’ freshman enrollment will reach 6,550 in the an increase of about 400 students from this pastacademidc year. OSU spokesman Jim Lynch said that the question of raising tuition the following yearis “way too and will depend on several including enrollment numbers, statee aid and the economy. The revisef Ohio budget gives stater schools such as OSU the option of raisingtuitiohn 3.
5 percent each of the next two Tuition for Ohio resident undergrads will remaibn frozen at the 2006-07 level of $8,406 for the 2009-109 academic year but the freeze does not includd tuition for out-of-state students. The undergraduate surchargd for non-Ohio residents at the Columbus campus willincreasr 2.5 percent to bringing the annual tuition cost for a non-resident undergraf to $22,278. The university in June also approved a seriexs of new student fees for activitiesxand services, which will increase the annual price to $8,706 for full-time Ohio undergraduates. Room and boardx for three academic quarters will increaseby 4.
6 or $372, to an average of $8,4098 depending on room type and meal Gov. Ted Strickland had vowed to halt tuition hikesat two- and four-yeadr state schools this year, but liftee the freeze Friday after the state’s higher-educationn funding was cut by $170 million as part of the compromisde that led to passage of the state’s $50.5 billion, two-year budget.