All three of the state universities are expecting fewer students this fall.  During discussion of next year’s budgets for  Iowa State, U-N-I and the University of Iowa

Fewer students mean less tuition revenue for each school. Iowa State University says student tuition supports seventy-percent of its general budget.   At the University of Iowa, it’s sixty-four-percent from student tuition. U-N-I reports that student tuition supports only forty-two-percent of the Cedar Falls school’s budget.