Download Reports: Trends in Higher Education Reports Find Published Tuition and Fees in Grant Aid for Students Continue to Grow at Moderate Rates

December 18, 2018

NEW YORK — The College Board’s 2018 Trends in Higher Education reports released today—Trends in Student Aid and Trends in College Pricing—show a continuation of moderate growth in college prices and grant aid and declines in undergraduate student borrowing.

Published tuition and fee prices of colleges and universities were about the same in 2018-19 as in 2017-18, after adjusting for inflation. At public four-year institutions, average in-state tuition and fees rose by $250 (2.5% before accounting for last year’s inflation rate of 2.9 %), from $9,980 in 2017-18 to $10,230 in 2018-19. Private nonprofit four-year institutions had the largest increase—$1,130 (3.3%), from $34,700 in 2017-18 to $35,830 in 2018-19.

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