By Kelly Heyboer, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University will offer scholarships to freshmen in several health majors to cover a 60 percent tuition hike students said took them by surprise, campus officials said.
Tuition for several majors in Rutgers’ School of Health Related Professions — including sonography, dental hygiene and nuclear medicine – were scheduled to jump from $345 to $552 per credit this fall.
Rutgers officials said the steep hike was needed to bring the majors in line with similar professional programs. But new students enrolling in the program said they did not know about the 60 percent tuition increase until they got their bills this summer.
Many students and their families complained that they had been misled by the university.
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