The Arizona Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously approved a 2 percent increase in tuition and no increase in mandatory fees next school year for incoming resident and nonresident students.
The tuition and fee proposal does not apply to more than 95 percent of returning undergraduate students. Their tuition and fees are frozen for four years under the UA’s Guaranteed Tuition program implemented in 2014, which was expanded to include fees in 2015.
For entering freshmen, the proposal works out to just under a 2 percent increase . For the last five years, new students here have seen an increase of about 3 percent or higher each year for tuition and fees.
The board approved the new tuition rates at its meeting on the UA campus.
In-state students next school year will pay $12,447 a year in tuition and mandatory fees, up $220 from this year. Incoming nonresident students will pay $36,346 a year, up $688.
New in-state graduate students at the UA would pay about $230 more in tuition and fees next year; incoming nonresident graduate students would see an increase of about $630 over this year.
The tuition increase will allow the school to expand resources to provide more counseling and mental-health services to students, provide more financial-aid services, grow subsidies for child-care vouchers for students, invest in merit-based raises for faculty and staff, and address operation needs such as information and technology security, school officials have said.
Students who begin attending the UA in the fall are guaranteed this rate for the next four years.
