U.S. universities and colleges should expect to see sluggish tuition growth next year, according to a report released Thursday by Moody's Investors Service. Higher education institutions suffered the weakest tuition growth in the history of Moody's survey last year. Such sluggishness "appears to be the 'new normal,'" reported Moody's, which is predicting another year of tuition revenue growth near levels of inflation, approximately 2 percent. That is a significant departure from the booming years of 2005 to 2013, when schools saw net tuition grow by more than 5 percent annually. Almost two-thirds of public universities will see tuition growth under 3 percent, in part because of state-imposed limits to keep tuition low and student enrollments that are either flat or declining.

November 18, 2015 ・ From Reuters