Some college students are paying a rising cost — sometimes thousands of dollars — in athletic fees that don't always appear on tuition bills, NBCNews investigation finds.
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An NBC News investigation found that students like Waltemyer are paying a rising cost — sometimes thousands of dollars each year — in fees that don't always appear on their tuition bills. At James Madison, the money financed success on the football field. The school's football team has appeared in the championship game of the second tier of Division 1 football three times in the past four years, winning once.
Abrams noted that when students pay for these fees with student loans, they end up paying even more as those debts accrue interest.. Without a fee for sports teams, her loans would be half of that.Her story on Jame Madison's hidden fees received reaction from readers of the student paper, she said."A lot of students are upset," she said, and so were some parents.
To determine how much the schools charge each individual student, NBC News had to contact each public Division 1 university. Eight declined to disclose the exact amount they bill each student, despite repeated requests. There were 43 public universities that reported not charging fees for their sports programs, including perennial football powerhouse the University of Alabama and the University of Texas in Austin.
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