Tuition at Prairie View A&M Univeristy is expected to increase by $4.46 per semester credit hour next school year.
This information was disclosed by Senior Vice President for Business Affairs Mary Lee Hodge during an assembly held in the Julius W. Becton Jr. Auditorium last wednesday.
The State of Texas has required that all government-run and funded institutions return five percent of the funding that has been appropriated to them.
In order to meet this requirement, administration made cuts for the 2010 school year and is reducing its budget for the 2011 school year, as well as asking departments to make budget cuts.
Hodge said, President George Wright’s philosophy is “students deserve a good education, but there is no such thing as a good, cheap education.”
With the increase, about $958,000 would be accumulated. Twenty percent of this money would go toward financial aid and back to the students.
Currently, a student taking 12 credit hours pays $2,729.10 in tuition and mandated fees. With the increase, this figure would be $2,782.62.
Therefore, for a student taking the minimum full-time course load, tuition would only increase by $53.52 which is 1.96%.
Sophomore Skarlar Egans was excited about the chance to participate and talk about this topic stating, “The Designated Tuition increase is understandable that in order for the campus to run and function normally, it is need due to the required budget. “
Many of the students in attendance were worried about this increase along with the increase in the athletic fee which was voted on last year.
The tuition increase at hand not only benefits the athletes of the university, but all students that attend and will be enacted beginning the fall semester of this year.
The athletic fee which increased to $12.60 will be effective fall 2011.