Ball State University’s proposed tuition increase for the next academic year falls in line with the new recommendation to public universities from a state commission.  IPR’s Stephanie Wiechmann reports.

Last week, Ball State announced the Muncie school’s trustees were considering the lowest tuition increase in 41 years.  At its June meeting, trustees plan to raise tuition by 1.25 percent for Indiana residents.

That’s in line with new recommendations from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.  In a non-binding request that comes every two years, the commission is asking public universities to raise tuition no more than 1.4 percent for the next year.

In a statement, Commissioner Teresa Lubbers says Hoosier public universities have passed recent tuition hikes that are the lowest in nearly three decades.

In this chart of recommendations provided by the ICHE, Ball State had the third highest tuition in 2016-17.

According to data from the Commission, Ball State had the third-highest tuition for the 2016-17 school year, behind Indiana University-Bloomington and Purdue University- West Lafayette.  Those two institutions had frozen tuition at their main campuses.  Ball State’s increase for the year was 1.6 percent.