Editor’s Note: We originally reported that in-state undergraduates would pay $6,407 in tuition during the Fall 2016 semester, and out-of-state undergraduates would pay $23,926. This is incorrect. Those costs are for the entire 2016 academic year.
If the UNC System Board of Governors approves NC State’s trustees proposed tuition and fee hikes, all NC State students will be subject to at least a 3 percent tuition increase for the next two years.
The NC State Board of Trustees unanimously voted to recommend the 3 percent tuition increase for all students except out-of-state undergraduate students, whose tuition would be increased 6 percent per year for two years, according to the News & Observer.
The UNC System Board of Governors is set to vote on the recommended increases early next year. If passed, in-state undergraduate students would pay $6,407 in tuition for the 2016 year, and out-of-state undergraduates would pay $23,926.
The trustees also recommended a special student fee increase that would apply only to engineering students.
Engineering students at NC State currently pay an annual fee of $90, but under the new recommendations the fee would be raised to $500 in the fall of 2015 and $1,000 in the fall of 2016.
Under this plan, all students would be subject to a standard student fee increase of $138, which would bring the total amount students owe in annual fees up to about $2,400 by the fall of 2016, the N&O reported.
Chancellor Randy Woodson told the N&O the engineering fee increase would help cover the higher costs that come with educating engineering students and is necessary so that the university can keep pace with peer institutions.