One of the worst things that
any Bucks student could see,
besides rising gas prices, is a
raise in the cost of tuition here
at Bucks.
Sadly, the Board of Trustees
approved a tuition increase of
$6 per credit, for county residents
along with a $4 increase
in the technology fee, per credit
to take effect in the upcoming
Fall semester.
Many students were eager to
voice their opinions when
asked about the tuition
increase.
“I feel that the rising cost of
tuition isn’t necessary. I mean,
students still come to the
school, pay their money and
take their classes,” said Evan
Lake, 19, fine arts major from
Morrisville. He also added,
“Why raise the price even
higher when everything is
going fine the way it is right
now?”
A big factor in relation to the
change in tuition cost, is the
fact that most college students
have to work in order to pay
for their own education
Brittany Murphy, 19, an art
therapy major from
Warminster said “it’s hard
enough for students to pay the
tuition, [when] we’re working
hours on end just to afford
what it is now…and with student
loans, it puts more stress
on us.”
Nicole Trout, 20, an elementary
education major from
Warminster brought up the
important point of students
who don’t qualify for financial
aid. She said, “I think it’s
ridiculous,” and that “[the raise
in tuition] is going to prevent
students from attending Bucks
because they can’t afford it,
and don’t meet the requirements
for financial aid.”
“I thought the purpose of
Bucks was to save money,”
Evan Van Schie, 19, a liberal
arts major from Southampton
said. He talked about how
Bucks charges students’ crazy
amounts for books, and now
they’re raising tuition too.
A communication: performance
major from Philadelphia,
Whitney Wright, 18, said that
“the tuition is a little ridiculous
in my opinion, especially the
fact that people who live outside
of Bucks County have to
pay more than people who live
there.”
A student with a completely
different point of view, Hunter
Norum, 22, a graphic design
major from Langhorne finds
the increase to be fair.
He stated that “not only is
[the raise] minimal, but the
price remains quite affordable…
in fact I’d say the same
thing if the increase were a lot
more. I think if the prices were
raised a significant amount, it
would give students more
incentive to do better and to get
good grades.”
Norum believes that a cheap
education is looked at by many
students as freedom, “in a
sense that if they fail it wouldn’t
be the end of the world
because they could just retake
the class, because it’s so
cheap.”
In the end, not much can be
done about the raise in tuition
costs, except to accept the fact
that change is inevitable.
Isn’t your education worth it?