However, tuition for freshmen was 2.5 percent increased from last year.
“Although the school is facing financial burden as we have frozen tuition fee for two years in a row, we decided to freeze tuition for this year again,” President Kim said. “We have decided to freeze tuition as we want to encourage students to learn without barrier of high tuition fee and to do our social duty for the public interest.”
Students welcomed the tuition freeze.
“I am happy to hear that our school has decided to freeze tuition for three year in a row as I think the tuition is already high. I think that the school is really listening and taking action to students’ opinion,” Chung Kyung-mi (Mathematics Education, 3) said. “But I think the school should consider lowering the tuition.”
The number of four-year universities that froze its tuition this year has declined again from 2010, according to the report announced on Feb.14 by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Until Feb. 8, only 89 out of 200 four-year universities have frozen its tuition.
Lee Ji-yoon
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