Even with a doubling of in-state, undergraduate tuition since 1995 from $1,273 per semester to $2,466 Khayat insists Ole Miss is a bargain.
"Public figures love to say, 'Don't raise tuition,' but the truth is, tuition in Mississippi is very low," he said.
In that time Ole Miss has added, among other features, a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Croft Institute for International Studies, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, Trent Lott Leadership Institute, William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and the new Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics, according to http://www.djournal.com.
"Ole Miss is as fine a public university as there is," Khayat said. "We can compete with anybody in areas where we're strong."
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