STUDENTS PETITION FOR LOWER TUITION AT TEXAS A&M

  

Some Texas A&M students are asking the University to lower the cost of tuition and fees for the Fall 2020 semester.

This comes after the university announced that it would implement a hybrid model that will include both in-person and online courses offered to students.

Junior computer engineering major Hayley Jarjoura created a petition Monday. She says after talking with fellow students, they felt it was important to bring attention to the school and its tuition costs. She says that for degrees like hers, that require labs and hands-on learned experience, they will not be able to get that this semester so she feels there should be a decrease in tuition costs.

According to the Texas A&M Division of Enrollment and Academic Services, in-state tuition and fees for a year at Texas A&M currently is $12,744, which does not include food, housing, or books.

Jarjoura says for her parents, their concern was that an online form of education was not worth that amount.

The university says that at this point, they have not made any decisions about what will happen with tuition this fall.