Discuss “Skyrocketing tuition: Administration explains education’s price tag”

Students, parents, faculty, and staff gathered in Rangos Ballroom for Carnegie Mellon’s annual undergraduate tuition meeting last Tuesday night. Bill Elliott, the university’s vice-president for enrollment and the meeting’s host, reported that Carnegie Mellon’s tuition surpassed that of all its peer institutions for the first time this year.

First-year students paid $34,578 in tuition and fees, compared to this year’s average tuition rate among competitors of $31,805.

The meeting included presentations by several notable members of the administration, each measuring the university’s growth in a different way. Melissa Tanto, an analysist for Institutional Research and Analysis, evaluated Carnegie Mellon’s performance in the most...