Trustees of the University of Massachusetts voted Wednesday to freeze tuition and student fees for a second consecutive year.
UMass spokesman Robert Connolly said the consecutive freezes come at a time when most other public universities across the country are raising rates.
" We were on the higher end ( of student charges) when compared to our public peers, two years of freezes are driving us back toward the middle of the pack."
The freeze on mandatory student charges at UMass was made possible because state lawmakers agreed to put an additional $100 million in to the university system. The cost of an education is now divided evenly between the student and state taxpayers.
