State university system

A state university system is one of a state of the United States -supported composite state universities. Each U.S. state has at least one such system. A state university system has its own legal personality, with centralized management. Some state university systems have more than one campus, each of which occurs outside each as an independent university.

The state university system form alongside public colleges, the state higher education landscape in the United States. They are borne in large parts of the respective states. The level of financial support varies from state to state. Objective of public support is to keep the tuition low to allow much of the population to study at a university. Since opt in recent years more and more Americans to study, tuition fees but increase sharply.