Currently, the tuition fees of a total of 17,120 students at the age under 18 receiving education on a paid basis in higher education institutions including the people who have the status of internally displaced persons, who lost their parents or are deprived of parental care, who are the children of the persons died in the fight for Azerbaijan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, who have disability of I and II degrees, as well as people with limited physical capacities are paid at the expense of the state budget, the Ministry of Education told ONA.