S.Tumur-Ochir, Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Science who has been selected by the head of the Administrative Board of MUST after Z. Enkhbold, DP Member of Parliament resigned said, “This decision was made by the administration of the board of the university by holding many meeting since tuition has increased”.

“We have reviewed the budget generation resources yesterday. We remain to leave the items of budget generation resources in relation to academics, research and scientific activities, purchase of new equipment and laboratory accessories, as well as teachers’ and professors’ salaries as they were. We also tried to decrease the tuition by minimizing the expenditures of other resources, for instance constructing new buildings.”

Now, the tuition for junior year students is MNT 518,000 when it used to be MNT 618,000. Second year tuition is MNT 480 000 and tuition for third and fourth year students is MNT 397,000.

U.Enkhtuvshin, Deputy President of the Union Mongolian Students said, “We are satisfied with the decision to decreas tuition at MUST. The tuition for the first year has now increased by 9.8 percent on average and for third and fourth year students it has increased by 4.5 percent on average.

“But the Mongolian State University has increased its tuition by about 20 percent while we were protesting the tuition increase at MUST, which is unfortunate.”

“Even though tuition has been decreased we still need money and cash for some other items, such as money for books and also in order to be involved in internships for academic purposes,” said some student representatives.

The tuition at the Mongolian State University is the highest among all state universities.