An Iowa Senate subcommittee advanced a bill to freeze tuition for in-state students entering their first year at the three regent institutions Monday. If passed, the bill will go into effect for students who begin enrollment in or after 2027.
Jill Carlson, state relations officer at Iowa Board of Regents, said the board completed a study on the impacts of tuition guarantees, and submitted its findings in November. The report follows legislation signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds in May 2025, requiring the board to examine the subject and present their findings to the state.
Carlson said all three regents institutions have significantly lower tuition rates than the averages of schools in their peer groups, or sets of public institutions deemed as comparable to the regents institutions and used by the board to benchmark performance…