Pitt raises tuition 8.5 percent, blames state cuts, costs - Jeremy Boren, Pittsburgh Live

University of Pittsburgh student Andrea Bianco works full time in an Oakland ice cream shop to ease the bite of rising college costs, limit her student loans and save her parents money. B"I'm not happy about it," said Bianco, 22, an anthropology student from Philadelphia who lives in Oakland. "With it inflating every year, it's become almost like fake money to me. Monopoly money.ut Pitt's Board of Trustees set her back about $1,200 on Friday, she said, when it voted unanimously to raise in-state student tuition 8.5 percent, the largest increase she has encountered since she enrolled in 2008 and began accumulating debt that could reach $25,000.