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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Tuition and required fees will rise at 13 of Mississippi's 15 public community colleges this fall, with the average cost for two semesters rising almost 7 percent, to $2,748.
Here are the rates each college has approved, as well as the percentage change from the 2015-2016 academic year:
— Coahoma: $2,670, 6.8 percent
— Copiah-Lincoln: $2,730, unchanged
— East Central: $2,330, 4.5 percent
— East Mississippi: $2,840, unchanged
— Hinds: $2,840, 9.2 percent
— Holmes: $2,740, 16.1 percent
— Itawamba: $2,600, 8.3 percent
— Jones: $3,000, 10.2 percent
— Meridian: $2,514, 8.6 percent
— Mississippi Delta: $2,620, 4 percent
— Mississippi Gulf Coast: $3,040, 1.6 percent
— Northeast Mississippi: $2,702, 11.6 percent
— Northwest Mississippi: $2,800, 9.8 percent
— Pearl River: $2,990, 8.7 percent
— Southwest Mississippi: $2,800, 2.9 percent
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Source: Mississippi Community College Board
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