University of Arizona South OK’d for large increase


Published/Last Modified on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:16 PM MDT


SIERRA VISTA — University of Arizona South students will be among those seeing substantial tuition increases after the Arizona Board of Regents on Thursday approved hikes at state universities.


University of Arizona South resident undergraduates will see an 11.6 percent increase, with combined tuition and mandatory fees rising from $5,963 per year to $6,652 per year. Nonresident undergraduates at the Sierra Vista campus will see a 9.9 percent increase, with combined tuition and mandatory fees rising from $22,193 per year to $24,382 per year.

Graduate students at UA South who are Arizona residents will see a 16.4 percent increase, with tuition and mandatory fees rising from $7,574 per year to $8,813 per year.

Graduate students at UA South who are not residents of Arizona will see a 9.7 percent increase, with tuition and mandatory fees rising from $22,486 per year to $24,675 per year. 

Elsewhere in thestate, incoming Arizona State University students will see their tuition and mandatory fees jump by 18.8 percent — a hike of $1,288. That will bring the cost for in-state students to $8,128 per year starting this fall.

Current ASU students will face increases of between 11.9 percent and 12.7 percent, or $783 to $817 a year, depending on when they started.

The regents, meeting Thursday in Tucson, approved an increase of 20.5 percent for in-state undergraduate students at the University of Arizona — bringing tuition and fees to $8,245 beginning in the fall semester.

Freshmen at Northern Arizona University will pay $931 more per year, or an increase of 15.2 percent.

Annual tuition and fees for in-state students at the Flagstaff campus now comes to $7,053.

 

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