Kansas City, Mo ? Missouri’s 10 percent budget cuts for higher education this school year rank second among state governments’ cuts to colleges, according to a recent survey.

The only state to slash a larger percentage from higher-education funding was Oregon, with an 11 percent cut.

Overall, higher-education spending by state governments increased 1.2 percent this school year, less than the rate of inflation, according to researchers at Illinois State University’s Center for the Study of Education Policy.

Kansas joined Missouri as one of the 13 states that decreased higher-education spending this school year, the center’s annual survey showed.

The survey reflects the money each state’s legislature set aside for higher education at the beginning of the fiscal year this past summer, but it does not reflect the recent higher-education budget cuts some state have made.

For example, the survey says Kansas decreased its higher-education financing by just one-tenth of 1 percent. But higher-education budgets in Kansas have been cut much more since then.

Missouri looked worse than other states in the survey because it took action earlier to handle the looming financial crisis, said Quentin Wilson, Missouri’s interim commissioner for higher education.

The survey, which appears in the Dec. 13 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, “confirms what we already know,” Wilson said.