Hunter
05/07/24
The Iowa Board of Regents will be considering tuition increases later this week that could mean undergraduates at the University of Iowa paying three percent more this fall.
The Gazette reports the proposed increase would be the same at Iowa State, and 2 percent at the University of Northern Iowa.
Undergraduates were hit with a 3.5 percent increase at all three universities for the current school year.
The Regents request for a $32 million increase in general education funding for the 2024 fiscal budget was denied, but the legislature designated over $7 million for special uses, like the UI College of Nursing, ISU STEM workforce initiatives and UNI’s teacher-student recruitment efforts.
For the upcoming budget, Regents asked for an additional $14.8 million. Legislators appropriated an additional $12.3 million instead. Additional requests for a new University of Iowa Rural Health Care Partnership and programs at ISU and UNI that would have raised the request to $40 million were left off the funding bill altogether.
The increase translates to $270 at the U of I for the next academic year. That would bring the cost to attend school this fall over $28,600.