Rebekah Markillie |
Every semester you (or your parents) write a massive check to UP to pay for your education. Starting this fall, that check will be for at least $20,040 a semester, a 4.5 percent increase from last year, and that’s only covering tuition. A double room with double occupancy will increase to $3,980 per semester, a 4.4 percent increase from last year. UP gets its funds from three sources: tuition, donations and endowment earnings. This 4.5 percent tuition increase isn’t an arbitrary number. According to Vice President for Finance Alan Timmins, it’s decided based off of the expenditures from last year and projected estimates for the coming year. These expenditures make their way up from individual departments to the Board of Regents for an overall budget approval.
We’ve broken down the numbers to take a look at how UP’s price tag stacks up to other universities and how much students really pay.
