UL Lafayette has a student retention problem.
More than a quarter of freshmen do not return for their sophomore year, according to the university’s own academic strategic plan. The cost of going to UL may be to blame, at least partially.
The main perpetrator of rising costs isn’t tuition or housing, but miscellaneous fees that read like they were pulled from a bowl of higher education alphabet soup. And while UL’s board of supervisors has vowed to make every effort to improve retention, those fees have continued to increase…