Trustees Raise Tuition and Fees at University of Wyoming

Looks like tuition and fees will be going up at the University of Wyoming. On Friday the UW Board of Trustees voted to raise tuition for resident undergraduate and graduate students by 2 percent in each of the 2013 and 2014 academic years, while nonresidents will see their tuition rise 4.5 percent each of those two years. Additionally, the board approved annual student fee increases.

The fee increase over the next two years will cover UW's share of a $27 million renovation and expansion of Half Acre Gym into a modern student health and wellness center. Last fall, UW's student government approved a resolution in support of renovating and expanding the recreational facility, including a fee increase.

The tuition increase is expected to generate a total of $3.5 million over the next two years. UW reports that money will go toward four priorities that directly affect students:

• Increasing UW's library resources to support membership in the Greater Western Library Alliance.
• Maintaining technological upgrades to UW classrooms.
• Supporting instructional excellence through items, including new microscopes and other lab and studio equipment, writing and math lab improvements, and undergraduate research opportunities.
• Improving the student pipeline in science, technology, engineering and math.

A resident undergraduate student will see tuition go from $104 per credit hour to $108 per credit hour by 2014. For nonresidents, it goes from $576 to $629 according to the Associated Press. Mandatory student fees will increase from just over $1,000 a year to $1,164.

UW says that tuition and fees for resident undergraduates still ranks as the lowest among the nation's 150 public doctoral institutions.