FREE TUITION

MN Legislative Negotiators Reach Agreement on Free Tuition at Public Colleges

May 9, 2023

KVRR Staff,

ST. PAUL (KVRR/AP) — Tuition at Minnesota’s public colleges would be free to those whose families earn less than $80,000 annually, under an agreement reached by legislative negotiators. It is part of of a broader higher education budget bill which has yet to be voted on. The “North Star Promise” free tuition program would cost about $117 million in the…

U of M will offer free or reduced tuition to Native Americans

November 2, 2021

Jim Monk,

MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota will offer free or reduced tuition to many Native American students attending its five campuses starting next fall. The cost waiver program had previously been offered only at the Morris campus, but now will be expanded to all five campuses, to also include Duluth, Rochester, Crookston and the Twin Cities. Incoming freshmen and tribal…