Under cooperative education, the administration believes students can meet their tuition expenses while gaining a technological and liberal-arts education.

In addition to tuition, living expenses, books, supplies and fees, students also face a less-acknowledged opportunity cost in years of missed potential income.

For many, that could limit electives, lengthen the time required to graduate and impose added tuition expenses.

The schools continue to see a decrease in enrollment, as families can no longer afford the high tuition expense in such a poor economy.

Nor would it offer meaningful aid to low-income students who might want to attend private schools, since the subsidy is too small to cover full tuition expenses.

Higher fees, rather than factors such as higher practice costs, volume of services, or tuition expenses, mainly drive higher US spending.

His father-in-law, Yosef Yitzchok, paid for all the tuition expenses and helped facilitate his studies throughout.

Motoka is a college student struggling to make ends meet, working as a maid in the Migiwa Household to pay for her tuition expenses.

This program would allow students to work part-time during the school year or full-time during the summer months to help offset tuition expenses.

The award, valued at about $35,000 a year, covers tuition, living expenses and transportation costs for two or three years at Oxford.