Community college classes are going to cost a little more
EVERETT — Students will pay a little more this fall for classes at community colleges in Everett and Edmonds.
Tuition is set to rise 2.4 percent, which will cost full-time students at those campuses another $100 or so for the 2019-20 school year.
The increase was set by the state Board for Community and Technical Colleges. It is tied to inflation and changes in the median family wage and will apply throughout the system of 34 public higher education institutions.
In recent days, trustees of Everett and Edmonds community colleges approved new budgets containing the hike and using the money to sustain existing offerings.
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At Edmonds, tuition for students who are Washington residents will climb from the current $107.59 per credit to $110.26. Those rates apply to the first 10 credits. It will be $54.58 for each additional credit up to 18 next year. The cost for 15 units — a full-time equivalent student — will climb from $1,342.20 to $1,375.50 this fall which adds $100 in tuition in the course of three quarters.
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At Everett Community College, trustees Tuesday approved a $70.7 million budget.
It counts on hiking the cost for each of the first 10 credits from the current $107.34 to $109.99. Each additional credit up to 18 will cost a little over $54 next year. Thus a full-time resident student will pay $1,372 a quarter, up from this year’s charge of $1,338.95. Full-time nonresident students will pay $3,186.95 a quarter, up from $3,149.25.
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When I attend community college in 1976 tuition was about $83 a quarter. Minimum wage at the time was two dollars an hour.
One could work a minimum wage job, pay their tuition and pull themselves up by their bootstraps (to use an overused righty phrase).
