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The Board declined to adopt our tuition recommendation. Instead it voted to freeze undergraduate tuition at its current level for Texas residents at UT Austin for the next two years.
It adopted our request for a 3.6 percent increase for graduate students but declined to adopt it for the second year.
Tuition for out-of-state undergraduates will increase by 2.1 percent for two years rather than 2.6 percent as we requested. The tuition freeze was not applied to any other UT System school.
<p>I think the news about the possibility of a UT Austin Medical School is really great. UT offers top notch programs in just about every academic discipline; it’s just missing a med school. </p>
<p>Also, I think it actually would have been better to just raise tuition as President Powers requested. If UT is going to rise in the rankings, it needs more funding. A small percentage increase in tuition will go unnoticed by the overwhelming majority of students.</p>
<p>On the contrary, the mere fact that it is being raised will alarm most students. Tuition raises are accompanied by copious notices and the affordability of higher education is a salient issue these days. There’s no way of sneaking it by, no matter how small.</p>