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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Tuition rates at South Dakota's public universities will remain the same for the 2016-17 academic year.
The South Dakota Board of Regents set the rates this week. The regents say that additional state funding provided by Gov. Dennis Daugaard and the legislature will keep on-campus tuition and mandatory fees unchanged for resident students.
The state this year budgeted one-time funds to pay off construction bonds and redirect those savings to fund a tuition freeze for resident university students. Annual bond savings of just over $2.9 million, along with a $324,000 general fund appropriation, will cover salary/benefit costs and inflation normally paid by resident students through tuition and fee increases.
The tuition freeze does not apply to non-resident tuition rates or self-supported tuition rates at off-campus centers and for distance-delivered courses.
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