MSU board to vote on 4% tuition hike

The Missouri State University Board of Governors will vote April 1 at the university's West Plain campus to increase tuition for the 2011-12 school year.

If approved, undergraduate tuition for the school year would increase by $8 per credit hour to $194 per credit hour for Missouri residents. The cost per credit hour would rise by $16 to $388 per credit hour for out-of-state students, according to a news release and the MSU Web site. Both represent a 4 percent increase.

Tuition for graduate students would rise by $3 per credit hour, or 1.3 percent, to $227 per credit hour for resident students, a 1. percent increase. For nonresident graduate students, tuition would rise by $26 per credit hour to $454 per credit hour, a 6.1 percent increase.

The same rate increases would apply for students using BearNet instruction, a live classroom-to-classroom audio-video connection, at BearNet location courses other than Springfield.

Room and board costs would increase by an average of 4.66 percent, depending on type of residence and the student's selected food plan, the release said.

For Greenwood Laboratory School, located on the Springfield campus, the 2011-12 tuition would range from $4,717 to $4806, depending on grade level. Greenwood's 2010-11 tuition is approximately $4,450.

A copy of the proposed 2011-12 fee schedule is posted on the board's Web site.

The MSU Board of Governor's next meeting in Springfield is scheduled for May 12.[[In-content Ad]]