Regional campuses set tuition for 2005-2006

February 4, 2005

Miami University trustees today (Feb. 4) set tuition and general fees for 2005-06 on the Hamilton and Middletown campuses.

Tuition and general fees for full-time regional campus lower division undergraduates (those with up to 68 Miami credit hours) will go from $3,840 to $4,218. For full-time upper division undergraduates (68 credits or more), the cost will increase from $5,832 to $6,402.

Both increases are 9.8 percent.
Miami's regional campuses have had the lowest charges among Ohio's 23 regional campuses for the past two years. In 2004-05, Miami's annual regional fees were $1,003 below the state average.

"The regional campuses have done an excellent job for more than a decade on holding the line on student fees," said Interim Provost John Skillings, "but now they are challenged with maintaining the quality of instruction while facing flat or declining state support."

Miami's regional campuses serve about 6,000 undergraduates each semester in Hamilton and Middletown and at offsite locations in Butler, Preble and Warren counties, including Eaton, Lebanon, Trenton and West Chester. In all, 22 percent of Miami undergraduates are registered as regional campus students.