By AP/KWMU
Columbia, MO – Students will pay more of the University of Missouri's budget this year than the state.
Tuition and fees account for 44.6% of money the the four-campus system has for this current fiscal year's budget.
State funding is about 42.2%.
Administrators say it's the first time in anyone's memory that tuition makes up more of the budget than state funding.
Four years ago state appropriations were 58% greater than tuition revenues.
The university system has discretionary spending control over $900 million in the budget. The total university budget, which includes grants, housing revenue and hospitals, is $1.9 billion.