The cost of attending either the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville or the University of Missouri in Columbia is rising every year (and/….? which one is more expensive???), according to data obtained from College Navigator, an online collection of postsecondary education data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
At both colleges, living on campus as a (??) while paying in-state tuition and fees will cost less than living on campus as an out-of-state resident. At the UofA, living on campus as an in-state resident cost $23,506 for the 2015-2016 school year, while at Mizzou (avoid the school nicknames)it cost $24,183.
Students who attend from other states while living on campus will have to pay more at both universities. At the UofA, out-of-state (fyi, neighboring states get the in-state tuition, so rephrase this) students living on campus paid $36,810, and Mizzou students paid $39,840 for the 2015-2016 school year.
Arkansas residents paid 36 percent of what out-of-state students paid at the UofA and Missouri residents paid 44 percent of what out-of-state students paid at Mizzou in 2015-2016.(nice)
At the UofA, out-of-state tuition increased 7.5 percent from the 2014-2015 school year to the 2015-2016 school year while in-state tuition only increased 3.8 percent. This could signify a trend by the university to keep the increasing cost of attending lower for Arkansans by making students from out-of-state pay more. (great)
Mizzou’s out-of-state tuition increased only 2.9 percent in each of the past two years. In-state tuition increased less than one percent in the same time period.
Over the past four school years, the most significant percentage changes for both universities came from the cost of books and supplies.
At Mizzou, the cost of books and supplies increased nearly 21 percent, from $930 in 2012-2013 to $1,124 in 2015-2016.
At the UofA, the cost of books and supplies decreased nearly 22 percent, from $1,278 to $1,000 over the same period, the only decrease in cost in any category in both sets of data.
Solid summary of the findings, well presented and organized. See my comments. I would stick to formal school names in the second reference. The spreadsheet looked great. Nice work