The Arizona Board of Regents voted in favor of gouging students once again. On Thursday, the Regents approved 2018-19 tuition and fees for Arizona’s public universities.
Incoming resident freshmen at the University of Arizona (UA) will see a 2 percent increase in tuition. Northern Arizona will see a 3.5 percent increase in tuition.
Increases for incoming resident freshmen of 3.5 percent and 2 percent respectively for NAU and UA were approved.
The combined tuition and mandatory fee rates range from an increase of .3 percent to 4.6 percent for resident undergraduate students and from 1.6 to 6.9 percent for resident graduate students. This year’s resident undergraduate base tuition and fees increase averages about 1.6 percent.
There are no increases in Arizona State University’s tuition rate for resident undergraduate students and nonresident undergraduate students at ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City and ASU Eastern Arizona College. For all other nonresident and international undergraduate and graduate students, there is a 3.5 percent increase as well as a 1.5 percent resident graduate increase. The health and wellness fee will increase $15 per semester to benefit students through increased services and there are four new program fees as well as one new graduate fee.
NAU’s tuition and Pledge program results in no tuition increase for most continuing undergraduate students at the Flagstaff campus. Additional rates are a 3.5 percent increase for new undergraduate resident and nonresident students at the Flagstaff campus, non-Pledge students and students at Yuma and statewide sites. Flagstaff resident and nonresident graduate students will see a 6 percent increase. There are six new program fees and a new mandatory $75 per semester athletics fee to support facilities, ongoing operations and programmatic services.
UA’s tuition increases are approximately 2 percent for all incoming undergraduate, graduate, resident and nonresident students. In the fifth year of the UA’s Tuition Guarantee program, most continuing undergraduates will see no increases. There are four new program fees at the UA and the university is revising three existing undergraduate program fees to focus on student success initiatives. Graduate students will see a decrease in the SBS-Master of Library Sciences program fee and two new graduate program fees were approved.