Higher Education: Tuition Increases and Colleges' Efforts to Contain Costs

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on issues regarding college tuition increases and what schools have done to keep down their costs, focusing on: (1) the extent to which tuition increases varied by type and size of school; (2) the extent to which there is a statistical relationship between increases in tuition and other factors such as cost increases at the schools; (3) the extent to which tuition increases at 4-year schools have affected tuition at community colleges; and (4) examples of strategies that schools have employed to reduce their own costs.