MONTREAL, March 15 (UPI) -- Canada's McGill University in Montreal has been fined $2 million by Quebec authorities for increasing tuition fees ten-fold for one program, officials said.
The provincial minister of education, Line Beauchamp, made the announcement Monday in response to the school's increase of MBA tuition to $29,500 per year, The (Montreal) Gazette reported.
Tuition at other Quebec universities is $2,067.90 for the same master's of business administration program for Quebec residents.
There was no immediate response by the university to the fine, which would come out of the province's annual $330 million operating grant that assists the school's annual budget of about $1 billion, the newspaper said.
McGill had earlier contended the $29,500 tuition is well below rates universities in the United States charge.
Tuitions in Quebec are the lowest of any province in Canada, the report said. UPI
