Boston Globe cites UMaine’s cost of attendance in op-ed on rising UMass tuition

A breakdown of the University of Maine’s cost of attendance — tuition and fees — was featured in a Boston Globe opinion piece on rising tuition at the University of Massachusetts. At UMass, tuition is kept “ridiculously low while fees are piled high like pancakes on a freshman’s plate,” according to the article. At the flagship UMass Amherst campus, a variety of fees for 2015–16 add up to more than $13,000, while tuition is $1,714, the article states. Some of the fees are going to shrink or vanish, while tuition gets significantly larger. “That’s how it’s done in other places, such as Maine, where resident tuition at the University of Maine is $8,370 and fees are $2,240. Simple,” the article reads.