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The Indiana University Board of Trustees approved tuition and fee increases for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years, this morning.
The approval comes during the Trustee’s meeting at IU Northwest, in Gary. At IU Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, resident undergraduate tuition and fee rates will increase by 1.4 percent over the next two academic years. According to an IU press release, the increase will cost students an additional $145.46 at IU Bloomington, and $128.66 at IUPUI next year. Nonresident undergraduate tuition at IU Bloomington will increase 1.75 percent each of the next two years.
Additional tuition increases will be more severe at IU’s five regional campuses: IU East, IU Kokomo, IU Northwest, IU South Bend and IU Southeast. The Board of Trustees approved a tuition increase of 1.9 percent for each of the next two academic years, which equals $134.36 for the 2017-18 academic year.
The tuition increases were recommended by IU President Michael A. McRobbie and approved by the IU Trustees during a special tuition forum hosted on the IUPUI campus this afternoon immediately following a public hearing on the issue. This is the first increase at IU Bloomington since 2015.
