Tale of Two States - Sun-News

Higher education has been cut so deeply that Coastal Carolina University's budget now includes only 7 percent of state spending, $10 million and dwindling. Our flagship school, the University of South Carolina, receives 12 percent of its funding from the state. In-state tuition at CCU is $4,475 per semester; at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, tuition is $2,355, nearly half that for a comparable education. The difference, of course, is how much of a student's bill each state picks up.