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Show Junior College Costs Up In Utah Enrollment Jumps Utah's five junior colleges spent approximately $863,000 for regular education in the school year ended June, 1947, approximately double the ' prewar pre-war expenditure level, according accord-ing to a research report released today by Utah Foundation, the non-profit tax study organization. organiza-tion. Expenditures for the current cur-rent school year will exceed $1,-150,000. $1,-150,000. . The report states that 1947 full-time enrollment at the five schools neared 2,700, compared with 1,900 in the pre-war year ended in 1941. State funds will provide approximately ap-proximately $850,000 of the $1,-250,000 $1,-250,000 required for current expenditures ex-penditures this year. In addition, special building appropriations totaling $707,0000 for the 1948-1949 1948-1949 biennium were approved by the 1947 Legislature. Average cost, per-student for regular education at the junior colleges was $322 in the 1946-47 school year. 1940-41 per-student cost was $230. War-time curtailment curtail-ment of enrollments raised per-student per-student cost to $1,548 at Carbon Junior college in 1943-44, when only 22 full-time students were enrolled. Four of the five two-year colleges col-leges report to the State Board of Education. The Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural College at Cedar City reports to the Board of Trustees of the Utah State Agricultural College. The five junior colleges charge the non-resident fee of $55 in lieu of the resident registration fee of $10, making the net additional addi-tional charge to out-of-state stu-dents stu-dents only $45. |