Tuitions will be going up at all four University of Missouri System campuses this fall.
On Thursday, the UM System Board of Curators voted unanimously to raise tuition rates. Ryan Rapp, Mizzou’s Chief Financial Officer, presented the following recommendations to the board before the vote.
“Each university is recommending a 4% increase for undergraduate tuition for both in-state and out-of-state (students), with graduate (student) tuition being at 3%,” he said. “And then for our professional programs, there’s a range of anywhere from 0.8% to 4.75%, really driven by the demand for those programs.”
Rapp told the curators that university leaders believe the recommendations were reasonable.
“It’s really reflective of the quality and outcomes,” he said. “I think these increases are in line with what some other state schools have done, along with some of our surrounding state flagship (universities).”
Rapp pointed out that the 4% undergraduate tuition hike is still lower than tuition increases recently approved for other Missouri colleges and universities.
“We saw UCM was approved at 4.7%, Missouri State, Truman, and Lincoln were all approved at 5%, and Missouri Western had a rate of 10%,” he said.
The 4% tuition hike for UM System undergraduates translates to roughly an extra $20 per semester hour.
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