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Show Colleges make more room, raise tuition, fees in future years Accredited colleges across the United States have openings open-ings for over 65,000 freshmen in the spring term according to a magazine article just released. re-leased. , The magazine found that many schools are encouraging applications from junior college col-lege graduates and a number of them are accepting transfers trans-fers in the sophomore, junior and senior classes. The schools accepted about 60,000 transfers this year and expect to take 64,000 next year. Noting that "colleges are building at a great pace," the magazine predicts that there will be accomodations for at least 50,000 additional freshmen fresh-men next fall, but there will be a wide increase in costs. Comparing eastern colleges to those in Utah, Antioch (Ohi-o), (Ohi-o), whch now costs about $2, 022 for tuition, fees, room and board, has been raising tuition $50 each year and will .continue .con-tinue to do so, the article continues. con-tinues. Bates (Me.) will lift tuition by $150, bringing expenses ex-penses to $2,350. Hamilton (N. Y.), now at $2,300, will boost tuition by $200. Denison (Ohio) $2,170 now, will add $50 to tuition tu-ition next year and another $100 the year after Wisconsin State will raise fees for out-of-staters by $50 to $100. The survey revealed that 617 colleges could have taken 46, 171 more freshmen than actually ac-tually enrolled in the 1963 fall term. In some cases, colleges had additional room only for high-ranking student, "but at a good many schools, average youngsters capable of doing the work at a passing level would have been welcome," the article stated. Every college or university wants hard-working youngsters with high marks and high scores. But there's an increasing increas-ing interest in the average student, stu-dent, too, in geographic distribution, dis-tribution, and in students heading head-ing for felds like home economics, econ-omics, nursing, engineering, music and teacher education, it is stated. |