It does vary a lot by school. Total cost-per-student has risen substantially at many universities, but is closer to flat at others. The University of California

It does vary a lot by school. Total cost-per-student has risen substantially at many universities, but is closer to flat at others. The University of California system is one that has had kept per-student costs close to flat, and in their case, tuition rises do seem roughly equal-and-opposite of state funding cuts. Last time I ran the numbers (2012), per-student state funding had dropped from historical levels of $25-30k/student to $13k [1], which explains where the ~$15k/student increase in tuition over that period could've come from. [1] http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt