Press Release - due 11/13

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Samantha E. Rozenblum
Liberty University
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Friday, November 15

Liberty University Announces 10 Percent Tuition Decrease

After steadily increasing tuition for five years, the university finally offers students relief.

The prestigious and rapidly expanding Liberty University, located in Lynchburg, Virginia, has announced that, despite its immense recent growth, it will be decreasing tuition in order to keep prices in-market for students.

This tuition decrease encompasses all students: in-state, out-of-state, graduate and undergraduate students. As a result of the university’s recent explosion, students have been hit hard with tuition increases, particularly out-of-state students.

In the past five years, enrollment has increased from 14,500 students to 16,275 students this year; however, last year’s total enrollment was 16,700 students and applications for this semester were projected to decrease by 10 percent had it not been for the tuition decrease.

Liberty University recognizes that though it is expanding, the university must remain affordable for the demographic of students it seeks to attract, even if it is at the expense of some of the programs Liberty can currently afford to offer.

“Cutting tuition means a reduction in our income, and that reduction will have to be made up in other areas. No faculty or staff member will lose his or her job because of these cuts, but we will not be able to offer as many of the programs as we have in the past,” says university president Jerry Falwell Jr.

Falwell continues that he is “very pleased” that a majority of these programs will be absorbed into other areas of the university. The students involved in these specific programs will have to find more generic alternatives.

These programs include: women’s studies, the ornithology department, the arts and sciences honors program, men’s and women’s golf teams, the human resources management institute, the university hosts and hostesses program, and the department of Eastern languages.

Liberty University, founded in 1971, is the largest Christian University in the world and fervently seeks to train champions for Christ in all arenas of life. For questions or more information, call (434) 582-2000 or to schedule a visit, email visitorscenter@liberty.edu.