NEWS RELEASE

April 18, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELSEASE

Contact Information
Taylor Dyer

Taylor.rae.dyer@gmail.com
978-684-2691

SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY LOWERING TUTION PRICES

SALEM, MA -- Salem State University, announced the cost of tuition is
to be lowered for all student by 10 percent. Overall enrollment
increased at the university in the last five years from 14,500 to 16,275;
however, last year the total enrollment was 16,700.
President Patricia Meservey stated, I am extremely pleased that
the board has seen fit to follow our recommendations on lowering
tuitions costs. During the past several years we have had to raise
tuition a number of times for all of our students. With more and more
people attending junior colleges and other universities in the state, we
have recognized that those who want to come to this university must
have some relief.
Tuition costs for the last five years per semester are as follows:
Undergrad in-state $525, undergrad out -of -state $700, graduates in
-state $600, graduates out-of-state $850. Each of these figures will be
reduced by 10 percent for the next term.

No faculty or staff member will lose is or her job because of

these cuts, but we will not be able to offer as many programs as we
have in the past. The faculty and staff members who programs will be
eliminated will be absorbed into other areas of the university. I am very
pleased about that. The students attending these programs, of course,
must find alternatives. President Meservey said.

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