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The Rising Price of Tuition

By Christine Metz & Jonathan Kealing

February 11, 2008

In the past five years, tuition at Kansas University has doubled. It's gone up far faster than inflation, income and even the housing market. The LJWorld takes you beyond the numbers as it looks at the students and parents who have to pay for school and the professors that are made possible through the increases.

In the past five years, tuition at Kansas University has doubled. It's gone up far faster than inflation, income and even the housing market. The LJWorld takes you beyond the numbers as it looks at the students and parents who have to pay for school and the professors that are made possible through the increases.

The parents who pay

Meet the Kong family. Andrew's a KU junior, Amanda is a Free State High School senior and Alex is a freshman in high school. Man and Sue Kong are their parents. And, not quite sure how they are going to pay for all their children to go to college.

By Christine Metz

The parents who pay

KU Students

High Schoolers and Their Parents

Professors

Regents may want change in tuition proposals

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By the numbers

See tuition and enrollment data for Kansas and Big 12 universities.

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