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In a letter mailed only to parents late last week, tuition will be $46,317 next year, $1,340 more than last year.
This is a 2.98 percent increase for the total cost of attendance for undergraduates.
The total cost for undergraduate students can be broken down between the cost of tuition and room and board. Tuition will be $35,604, a 2.91 percent increase, and room and board will be $9,816, which is 3.39 percent more than the present cost. DU has increased tuition every year since 1979. The current is the smallest increase over that span of years.
The student health fee will increase $12 to $432 due to increased usage, Provost Gregg Kvistad said. The technology fee, $144, and student activity fee, $321, will remain at the same.
“What we tried to do here was be extraordinarily careful with increasing tuition, fees and expenses,” Kvistad said in an interview with The Clarion.
“The real bottom line is that we are trying desperately to keep the tuition rate increases very, very low.”
The letter regarding the increase was not sent directly to students via e-mail, as it was last year. The Board of Trustees approved the administration’s recommendation mid-January, more than one month before the amount was announced.
Kvistad said for the 2010-2011 school year, DU will spend $9 million more in institutional financial aid.
The budget for the 2010-2011 school year is still being formulated, Kvistad said. However, last year, DU’s operational budget was reduced by $12.1 million.
There will be an additional 15 faculty positions added in the fall. Most will be added to Sturm College of Law and Daniels College of Business.
In the letter, Kvistad said, “The university is acutely aware of the environment in which we made this decision, which calls for the smallest tuition increase in many years. The economic challenges of the last year have affected, sometimes dramatically, every person, every family, every business and every institution in this country.”
*Room and Board is based on a first-time first-year student in a double room with the largest meal plan
Source of Undergraduate Tuition, 1940 to Present: Office of the Provost
