Tuition Coverage

Duke trustees increase tuition and fees for 2023-24 school year

According to Duke, the board announced an increase of 4.9% to the cost of undergraduate attendance.

Fact check: Do top universities have billion dollar untaxed endowments?

"Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 BILLION hedge fund they call an 'endowment' that they pay zero taxes on," tweeted Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA. PolitiFact checks his claim.

Madison Czopek, PolitiFact reporter

College is expensive. Consider tuition insurance to protect your investment

It's an investment that can cost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. But what if something goes wrong?

Military, their families can study free at Fayetteville State University

Darrell Allison announced that undergraduate tuition at FSU will be free for anyone with a military conneciton.

Fayetteville State making tuition free for military students

Fayetteville State will make tuition free for military-connected students starting in the fall through a new initiative. FSU Chancellor Darrell T. Allison makes the announcement.

Fayetteville State to provide free tuition to military-connected students through scholarship

Any active-duty member of the military, anyon who is retired military and anyone whose mother or father served can attend FSU free starting with the Fall 2022 semester.

Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter

FSU gets $164 million in state funding

Fayetteville State University will reduce its tuition to $500 a semester, meaning students will only have to pay $4,000 to attend school for four years. This new act is made possible by state funded granted on Thursday when Gov. Roy Cooper signed the state's budget.

Tuition assistance among perks businesses offering to fill jobs

Part-time jobs like waiting tables or working as a cashier used to help people save for college. Now, a growing number of businesses are chipping in for college to help attract more workers.

With hospitality jobs hard to fill, some restaurants add tuition assistance incentive

Part-time jobs like waiting tables or working as a cashier used to help people save for college. Now, a growing number of businesses are chipping in for college to help attract more workers.

Matt Talhelm, WRAL reporter

Big week for applying to colleges, for financial aid in NC

Cris Charbonneau, director of advocacy and engagement for MyFutureNC, an education nonprofit, discusses the importance of completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid - the FAFSA - as soon as possible to qualify for as much college financial aid as possible.

Two big chances for college-bound families to save money

Parents of college-bound students can take advantage of two opportunities this week to save some money.

Kathy Hanrahan, WRAL lifestyle editor

If the check's in the mail, better be able to prove it

N.C. State University officials say they give students and parents the benefit of the doubt if mailed tuition checks are delayed. But they urge people to document that they did mail it.

Package goes on 1,700-mile odyssey for trip from Wendell to Pitt County

The U.S. Postal Service promises that rain, snow or other inclement weather won't halt mail service, but it never says that packages will take the quickest route to their destination.

Amanda Lamb, WRAL reporter

Fact check: How many student loan borrowers failed to finish college?

Rep. Alma Adams, D-N.C., says many Americans carrying heavy student loan debt aren't even getting their money's worth. She tweeted: "Almost 40% of borrowers with student loan debt didn't finish their degree." PolitiFact investigates her claim.

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Biden wrong about cost of his free college plan

In an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes," Joe Biden slipped up while describing his plan to make public colleges free for all families with incomes below $125,000.

Noah Y. Kim, PolitiFact reporter

Duke University will freeze undergraduate tuition, rescind increase

Duke University President Vincent E. Price on Saturday said in an announcement on the school's website it will freeze undergraduate tuition and rescind the planned 3.9 percent tuition increase scheduled for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Jason O. Boyd, Multiplatform producer

Cooper signs teacher pay, criminal justice reform bills

Teacher pay bill, First Step Act, NC Promise tuition funding signed into law.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Proposal calls for free tuition for descendants of slaves who built UNC-Chapel Hill

To build its campus in the late 1700s, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used the forced labor of hundreds of enslaved people. Now, a descendant of some of those slaves is calling on the university to make a move toward equality by paying for the education of all such descendants.

Sarah Krueger, WRAL Durham reporter

Finding ways to afford college

The rules for higher education have changed a lot in the past several months as the coronavirus continues to spread around the world. Many families, though, are still planning to send their kids to college this fall, and some will have to find a way to afford it in this time of economic crisis.

It'll cost you more to go to school at Duke University

It will be more expensive to attend Duke next year.

Cutest race ever: Babies crawl across UNC stadium

A group of adorable babies raced during halftime at the Jan. 4 UNC game at the Dean E. Smith Center. The annual crawling contest, called Dorms to Diapers, encourages parents to start saving for their child's college and K-12 education early in life.

House approves in-state tuition rates for athletic scholarship students

Restoration of an old state law allowing University of North Carolina system campuses to treat out-of-state students with full athletic scholarships like in-state students has cleared one legislative chamber.

Dad's lottery win means Triangle girl will graduate college without student debt

Brian Murphy, of Durham, plans to use the $200,00 lottery prize he won to make sure his daughter graduates college without any student loans.

Robbie Vaglio, WRAL.com intern

No more tuition boost for lingering college students in NC

The surcharge had cost students who take more than four years to complete their degrees 50 percent more.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Steve Harvey covers the tuition for 8 college-bound students

The students will attend Kent State University, the 62-year-old 'Family Feud' host's alma mater.