(The Center Square) – Out of state tuition could soon get more expensive for undergraduates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The university system’s governing board could vote this week on a proposed 10% hike.
This would bring the nonresident undergraduate tuition to $43,152. The revenue from the increase would be used for faculty and staff retention, academic support, campus safety, and to “offset the inflationary impacts on contracted services,” according to the university system.
Tuition for in-state Chapel Hill undergraduate students would not increase under the proposal that will be considered by a committee of the Board of Governors on Wednesday and possibly the full board on Thursday.
Carolina received 51,181 first-year applications from out-of-state residents for admission in the fall of 2024, according to the university system..
The system requires that 82% of incoming first-year students at Chapel Hill are North Carolina residents, which leaves 18% for out-of-state and international students.
Eight other universities in the North Carolina university system have also proposed tuition increases, with five of those – Appalachian State, North Carolina A&T, N.C. State, UNC Charlotte and UNC Wilmington – requesting to raise tuition for in-state graduate students and all out-of state residents, both graduate and undergraduate.
Appalachian State, for example, is requesting a 3% increase for both in- and out-of-state graduate students and all out-of-state undergraduates.
“Revenues resulting from this increase will be used to offset the impacts of inflation on supplies, materials, and services, to invest in classroom equipment and technology, and to provide for new faculty and academic advisor positions to support the growing student population at the Boone and Hickory campuses,” a university system document states.
East Carolina is asking for a 5% increase for both in-state and out-of-state graduate students.
