Arkansas:

In 2015-2016, Arkansas out-of-state students paid $13,304 or 36.1% more, or a percentage change of 63.9% more (it’s not a percentage change – it is a percent of the total) than in-state students. In other words, in-state students only had to pay 63.9% of what out-of-state students had to pay. (AP style with dates – don’t begin sentences with the date) 2014-2015 had the biggest percentage gain of 5.01% for in-state tuition, and 2015-2016 had the biggest percentage gain of 7.52% for out-of-state tuition. Out-of-state tuition and fees had the greatest increase from 2012-2013 to 2015-2016 by 18.4% percent change.

Mizzou: (Style: University of Missouri at Columbia)

In 2015-2016, Mizzou out-of-state students paid $15,657 more, or a percentage change of 60.7% more than in-state students. In other words, in-state students only had to pay 60.7% of what out-of-state students had to pay. 2013-2014 had the biggest percentage gain of 1.71% for in-state tuition, and 2014-2015 had the biggest percentage gain of 2.93% for out-of-state tuition. Books and supplies had the greatest increase from 2012-2013 to 2015-2016 by 20.86% percent change.

 

In summation, one can gather a few conclusions after analyzing this data. For one, Mizzou in-state students were better off than Arkansas-in state students in the fact that  because their tuition was at a far lower rate than that of out-of-state tuition payers, along with comparing it to the percentage change to those of Arkansas students. Mizzou students only paid a mere 60.7% of tuition that out-of-state payers paid, as compared to Arkansas in-state students, that paid 63.9% of out-of state payers. Mizzou has the advantage in this case, a difference of 3.2%. No commonalities could be found between the percentage gains of in and out-of-state tuition for both of the schools. Mizzou had a greater increase of a percentage change for books and supplies surprisingly, compared to Arkansas that had a greatest percentage change for out -of-state tuition. Education Homework-Richardson (1) final