ISU’s biggest fee increase proposal is for its student health services, which continues to soar despite enrollment losses. A $5 “student services” fee increase is needed to “address a critical student staffing shortfall and the dramatic increase in fuel costs.” The UI also is upping its technology, activities, health, mental health and recreation fees - the last needed to offset rising programming costs and dropping non-student memberships. ISU wants to increase fees by 4 percent, $60, and UNI is proposing a 2.5 percent increase of $32.ĭriving the UI fee hike is a new $240 charge for all undergraduates and $200 charge to all graduates in support of a planned “major renovation” of the Iowa Memorial Union. The UI is planning the biggest increase in mandatory student fees at 19 percent - or $306 more for a total of $1,948. ISU wants a higher 5 percent increase for veterinary medicine resident students and 3.8 percent hike for non-resident students in that “highly-ranked program.”Īmong other things, according to the tuition proposal, “The additional revenue will enable ISU to deliver state-of-the art learning experiences for veterinary students, and a positive working environment for faculty and staff.” Fee increases The UI is proposing no increases for its graduate medical students, and a 3.5 percent increase for College of Law students. program to both offset additional costs and “stem the loss of quality students resulting in smaller class sizes by keeping tuition rates competitive.” The UI wants to keep rate increases to a modest $138 for its College of Pharmacy’s Pharm.D. “To remain competitive, the College of Nursing proposes no increase in the tuition rates for resident and for non-resident graduate students,” the proposal says. In addition to the general rate hikes, the UI and ISU are proposing some “differential tuition rates” for specific higher-cost or more competitive programs - like UI’s College of Nursing, which is proposing no increase. UNI wants a 3.5 percent increase for both types of grad students, amounting to $339 more for residents and $728 more for non-residents.Lawmakers in their education appropriations bill - awaiting the governor’s signature - did give the regents $7.1 million more for education-related special purposes: Instead, Iowa lawmakers offered no “general university” appropriations bump for the 2024 budget year - keeping state funding for the universities’ “general” higher-ed spending flat at $491.5 million total across the three campuses. Heading into the legislative session that just concluded, regents in September asked the state for a $32 million increase in general education appropriations, citing a market "heavily influenced by inflation, competition for quality talent, and labor shortages.“ The suggested increases, if approved, are below last year’s across-the-system increases of 4.25 percent - which came on the heels of a pandemic-plagued academic year and a $7 million state funding reduction in the 2021 budget year. And UI out-of-state undergrads under the proposal will pay 1 percent more - adding $305 for a total annual cost of $30,979. UNI wants to charge undergraduate out-of-state students 3.5 percent more next year, adding on $675 for a total annual cost of $19,940.
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