Dental Costs

The $500 hike in next year's tuition at the Dental School resulted from decreasing federal support and the increasing cost of education, Paul Goldhaber, dean of the School of Dental Medicine, said yesterday.

Goldhaber said there will be a decrease of $100,000 in federal subsidies to the Dental School's educational program, and that he also anticipates a decrease in general research grants from the government.

The additional money raised from the hike will be "peanuts," he said, since there are only 80 students at the school and tuition for the first one-and-a-half-years goes to the Medical School, where dental students take basic science courses.

The Dental School's budget last year was about $4 million, of which about 60 per cent was federal money.

The Dental School's tuition, like the Medical School's, will climb to $4250 from the present $3750.