Public universities would be disproportionately subject to sanctions proposed in Congress for institutions that raise their tuition by more than twice the rate of inflation over a three-year period, according to a report released this week by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
That is the case even though the average tuition and fees charged at the four-year public institutions in the Wisconsin study was $5,383, nearly one-quarter of the average rate of $20,257 charged by the four-year private colleges that were analyzed.