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According to Kay Scanlan, Director of the News Office at UMass-Amherst, the five percent tuition decrease is part of a five year effort to reduce costs for undergraduates. This is the third consecutive year in which the University of Massachusetts has cut tuition and fees...
These tuition hikes made UMass-Amherst the second most expensive of the six New England public university systems. After the recent tuition drops, the Amherst campus is now in fifth place, and mandatory tuition and fee costs on the Amherst and Boston campuses will be at their lowest since the 1992-93 academic year...
...UMass-Amherst has many resources devoted to undergraduates with families. The school hosts dinners, brunches and information sessions and offers free child care, transportation and meals for participating parents and children. About half the participants in each program are undergraduates, says Levinson, who helped organize these efforts several years...
Parents at UMass-Amherst also have many financial services available to them...
...addition to factoring family size into financial aid packages, UMass-Amherst provides additional tuition assistance for child care for undergraduates. Funding for this program is provided by a $2 fee paid by all students. According to Levinson, even more money may be set aside for child care by next fall...