State Budget Reduces University Funding - Amy Quinton, New Hampshire Public Radio

The cost of attending college in the state just got even more expensive. The state budget nearly halves funding to public higher education. Governor John Lynch, who let the state budget become law without his signature Friday, criticized those cuts. “I believe their the deepest cuts imposed by any state in the country on public higher education, public higher education helps drive our economy and what it means is a diminishing of the opportunity for our young people to go to college. And I think that’s a real problem for our state going forward.” In-state tuitions, also among the highest in the country, will go up again. It has some college students wondering whether it’s worth the cost. In 2009, nearly three quarters of students at the state’s public colleges and universities graduated with debt, and a lot of it. The average: $29,675.