How does the University compare with similar campuses from other states regarding expenditures on higher education?
In early 2000 the state Legislative Fiscal Division conducted and published a study of revenues and expenditures of the Montana University System and peer institutions in New Mexico, Washington, Arizona, Idaho, South Dakota, Oregon and North Dakota. The results of the study ranked the Montana University System last in state investment per full-time equivalent student ($2,600 below the average of the other states), last in total expenditures per full-time equivalent student ($116 below North Dakota where the average tuition is $1,000 less than in Montana) and second only to Oregon in the cost of tuition. Q: The six-mill levy for higher education passed by 61 percent to 39 percent in the fall election of 1998. How important is this source of revenue to the University? How does the University spend the mill-levy money? A: The six-mill levy provides 6 percent of the current fund revenues of the University. Over 10 years it contributes more than $50 million to the University’s general opera
