The state’s legislature, concerned with college affordability, in 2007 passed a bill that tied public institutions’ tuition increases on in-state resident undergraduates to the consumer price index. Colleges could ask Missouri’s Coordinating Board for Higher Education to waive this limit, or they could risk having to return part of their state appropriations if they exceeded it.
Legislators gave public colleges a little more wiggle room in 2018, approving a law that allowed them to raise tuition up to 5% above the CPI if state appropriations fell.
