A bill filed in the Kentucky Legislature would require Kentucky universities to freeze tuition for four years with each incoming class.
The Kentucky Student Tuition Protection and Accountability Act, or HB 452, would require all four-year universities in the state that receive state funds to set tuition and fees for each incoming class. This tuition freeze would be only for in-state students.
This would affect the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Western Kentucky University, Eastern Kentucky University, Northern Kentucky University, Morehead State, Murray State, and Kentucky State.
Private colleges like Lindsey Wilson College, Campbellsville University, Centre College, Bellarmine, and others would be exempt since they do not receive state funds.
The House bill includes language that would prohibit the Council for Postsecondary Education from raising tuition by more than 5% for in-state students and 7% for out-of-state students in an academic year.
According to CPE, the average annual change in undergraduate tuition at public Kentucky institutions was 0.7% for the 2021-22 academic year. It was 2% for the 2020-21 academic year.
