Tuition and fees at the University of Arizona would rise by 3.2 percent for state residents and by 7.2 percent for nonresidents next school year under a proposal released Friday.
But most current students wouldn’t be affected because their rates were set in years past and locked in under the UA’s guaranteed tuition plan.
Those who didn’t sign up for guaranteed tuition — about one in five undergraduates — would see their rates rise by 2.8 percent for state residents and 5.8 percent for nonresidents.
“More than three-quarters of undergraduate students at the University of Arizona will see zero increase in what they pay to attend,” President Ann Weaver Hart said in a statement on the school’s website.
The tuition proposals were developed with extensive input from UA student leaders, Hart said.
Under the proposal:
- An incoming freshman who lives in Arizona would face a total annual tab of $11,769 in tuition and mandatory fees, an increase of $366. The total for nonresidents will rise by $2,337 to $34,967.
- Graduate students would pay 2.8 percent more if they live in Arizona and 5.8 percent more if they don’t. The increase adds up to an extra $355 for residents and $1,765 more for nonresidents.
- Students at the UA’s Sierra Vista campus would see their total rise by 2.9 percent to $8,803 for residents. Nonresidents would pay 5.9 percent more for a total of $31,265.
The Arizona Board of Regents will hold an interactive online tuition hearing March 29 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. In Tucson, the hearing is at Gallagher Theater in the UA Student Union. At the Sierra Vista campus, the hearing is in Academic Technical Building B153.
The regents also are taking comments by email at tuition@azregents.edu
The board is to vote on tuition proposals for all three state universities at its April 7 meeting on the UA campus.
