Alabama has zero control over college costs: What that means for tuition

Under Alabama law, higher education institutions set tuition and fees for students. The state government cannot control those increases.

Dustin Weeden, associate vice president at SHEEO, said there’s no general rule for the control states have over the pricing of their institutions. But a state like Georgia, with a single state system, tends to have more control.

“It gives the state some oversight, and they have control over the ultimate, like the cap for the year, but it also gives institutions some flexibility under that cap to figure out where their particular needs are to fit in to make sure that they have the revenue they need to be high quality institutions,” he said.The downside of states not having control over tuition, he said, is that tuition costs can keep rising.

“The way the state is designed now, for higher ed, we don’t have the authority to say that that rate is adequate or inadequate,” he said. “Nobody has really raised that issue,” he said. “I would have a lot of concerns or questions about it.”

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