SUNY out of state 20% tuition increase

<p>Help -- understand SUNY will be raising tuition about 20% for out of state residents. Agree long overdue, but they should have grandfathered in existing students with 7-10%. Anyone else concerned re are we in for year after year, while they catch up to more realistic out of state tuition rates?</p>

<p>Can you please post the link to the article or the notification? thanks....</p>

<p>Here is one link, but it has been all over</p>

<p>SUNY</a> tuition to rise $620 in 2009</p>

<p>Rodney,</p>

<p>It is a raise of 1,130 for this spring, and then 1,130, for an annual increase of OK, maybe just 18%.</p>

<p>Does anyone know if this is a trend to bring the out of state tuition up every year. </p>

<p>I would like to know the SUNY Board of Trustees thoughts?</p>

<p>thanks, yea, I have seen the many articles, but OOS increase wasn't clear.....If I had to guess, I would imagine that SUNY will use whatever tools it can to bring in $$...it's obvious that it's OOS tuition was extremely low all along so it would make sense that they would balance an increase in OOS tuition with the goal of ^OOS enrollment; given that, IMO I don't think the increases will be so out of hand that OOS tuition will start to look like other publics (think UMich, Vermont, etc.)......SUNY knows that a large part of the OOS attraction is the tuition</p>

<p>Excuse my ignorance, I am new here. Are you a guidance counselor? I am just a parent. The SUNY trusteses have to balance a number of things, including irate in state parents, who support the school with their taxes, being upset if not enough spots. etc etc etc. There had been some talk about raising the tuition more at the top-tier state schools (Binghamton, Albany, Stoney Brook, Buffalo, maybe a couple others). I can see it for Binghamton, but the rest???</p>

<p>No problem...I too am a parent, but also an alumni of SUNY-Binghamton....I also help alot of our local kids with college apps and we are OOS. I also heard rumblings about increasing tuition at just the flagships, but nothing has been etched in stone yet...I have alot of friends whose kids are at Binghamton from OOS...given that their 2nd choice schools were all considerably more expensive, I think they would be understanding to a 15-20% tuition increase if it meant maintenence of educational programs and quality; but that's just my opinion based on a small sample of OOS parents.</p>

<p>In terms of "not enough spots", I think (and have observed over the past couple of years), that many, many in-state top SUNY students have migrated to some of the other flagships raising their profile (Buffalo, specifically, comes to mind). It is much easier to be accepted at all of the flagships from OOS; this is unique to NYS......If taxpayers are concerned about this phenomenon, it would be prudent for them to deal with it....when I attended in the 70's, I was in-state.....Now, if my child wants to attend, she will be an OOS candidate and it will be easier for her to be admitted than it was for me.....(and her stats are lower than mine were...)....for these reasons, it would make sense for OOS tuition to be raised.....</p>

<p>Yeah, my OSS kid's tuition took a big jump this semester. I was surprised that tuition would be increased in the middle of the year instead of just in the Fall, but the cost is still a bargain for us (cheaper than in-state at Penn State -- thank heaven that my other kid attending Penn State is graduating this Spring). According to my kid, the increase in tuition did catch some kids by surprise when they were getting their financial aid.</p>

<p>My SUNY kid likes SUNY Buffalo a lot, and has strongly recommended it to another sibling who will be applying to colleges next year.</p>

<p>what's the problem here? SUNY's out-of-state tuition is already ridiculously cheap compared to other public colleges</p>

<p>I was asking more a question -- does anyone think they will raise SUNY OOS tuition 20% a year until it is more marketplace?</p>

<p>I think they should, SUNY OOS tuition should be in the 20,000 along with other public universities</p>

<p>Son's instate tuition went up $310 for the Spring semester. It's still a bargain. Out of state went up---It's about time. SUNY should bring their out of state tuition rate up and on par with what other states charge their out of state students. For out of staters---why not go to your own in state publics? Answer--too expensive. So please don't go complaining about an out of state tuition increase for SUNY when it's still cheaper for you than your own instate public.</p>

<p>Going OOS to a SUNY isn't always cheaper. At the current price, it would be more expensive for me to attend SUNY Stony Brook than University of Oregon.</p>

<p>but its cheaper than going OOS to another OOS state</p>

<p>do you live in Oregon?</p>

<p>Yeah I live in Oregon</p>

<p>Many SUNYs have only 4-5% OOS students. They are trying to attract more. They are not trying to drive them away. That is the other side of the problem that is not discussed here.</p>

<p>Let them attract the OOS with their programs---not, with a discount in tuition or smaller difference between OOS and in state costs when compared to other states. I would like to see the OOS tuition raised be comparable to the OOS tuition of other north, east, and mid atlantic public universities.</p>

<p>University of Conn.----total around $33,000
University of Vermont--total around $38,000
University of Rhode Island--tuition alone for OOS=around $23,500. for instate: tuition alone=around $7450
University of Maine--total around $33,860</p>

<p>That just hasn't happened. I don't know why, but it hasn't. Is it because many SUNYs are in the middle of nowhere, or bc it is too cold in upstate NY near Bing/Albany/Plattsburgh? I can't answer, but some SUNYs have special scholarships for OOS students (others do not). The fact remains that SUNYs have a hard time getting more OOS students to attend.</p>

<p>The fact is this year, many students will shift from private schools to private, so they dont need the OOSs. The question is will this continue and will 20% tuitition increases continue.</p>

<p>I am sure that you meant students will shift from private to public and that is going to be the case for the next few years. That does not mean that state schools only want students from their state. Even though state schools are there to educate their instate students first, they do want geographic diversity, and they do want some OOS $$ coming in. Virginia, for example takes about 30% OOS students, NC takes much less at 18%. SUNYs have doors open for OOS students, but attract only 4%.</p>