Oklahoma’s Regents for Higher Education will meet Wednesday to approve tuition and fee rates for the state’s colleges and universities.
Under the proposed budget, tuition and fees will remain mostly flat - increasing 1.8 percent for in-state students and 1.6 percent for out-of-staters. The actual dollar amount increase, though, is larger for out-of-state versus in-state students because out-of-state students already pay higher tuition and fees.
This is the final step for a budget process leading into the 2022-23 school year. Colleges got an increase from the legislature worth $60 million, but overall Oklahoma lawmakers still fund higher education at a lower rate than they did prior to 2016. That means tuition and fee revenues are used to bridge the gap in many college budgets. State appropriations only cover approximately 25% of operating costs for colleges and universities.
Nine institutions are slated to keep tuition flat for in-state students:
- University of Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State University
- Northwestern Oklahoma State University
- Connors State College
- Eastern Oklahoma State College
- Murray State College,
- Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College
- Oklahoma City Community College
- Redlands Community College
