Tuition increases are possible for all Board of Regents universities, including Emporia State.
A plan presented to Regents Wednesday includes a possible 5-percent tuition increase at Emporia State. Currently, resident undergraduate students taking 15 hours pay over $2,600 in tuition and nearly $900 in fees per semester, while non-resident undergraduates pay almost $6,600 a semester for tuition. Resident graduate students pay over $2,900 a semester in tuition and nearly $1,000 in fees per semester, while non-resident graduate students pay almost $8,200 a semester in tuition.
If approved, this would follow flat tuition in fiscal 2020, 2022 and 2023 at ESU and virtually all other Regents schools. The last approved tuition increase at ESU was 2.4 percent in fiscal 2021.
Besides the possible tuition increases and thoroughly unrelated to the prospective tuition adjustment, the Regents listed new projects included in the fiscal 2025 five-year capital improvement plan. Emporia State’s new potential projects include a new indoor practice facility, expanded Hutchinson Pavilion at Welch Stadium, new west campus chiller plant and renovated east campus chiller plant, the nursing and student wellness facility that recently gained a university-record $5 million grant from the Jones Testamentary Trust, turf projects at the soccer pitch and Trusler Complex Glennen Field and the flattening of Morse South and Morse Southeast. The Regents’ capital plan for these projects and others has an estimated total cost of over $115 million, with most of the projects — including those related to athletics — funded through private gifts but others bolstered by American Rescue Plan Act funds, the state’s Education Building Fund or state general fund appropriations.
Kansas Board of Regents projects in current 5-year capital improvement plan
*Nursing department and student wellness facility: $21,617,010
*Butcher Education Center razing and relocation of departments: $1.4 million
*East campus chiller plant: $3.25 million
*West campus chiller plant: $10 million
*King Hall theater renovation and art addition: $4.945 million
*Razing of Morse South and Morse Southeast: $1.5 million
*Soccer pitch turf project: $4.318 million
*Welch Stadium east side renovation: $11.05 million
*Welch Stadium west side renovation: $1.68 million
*Welch Stadium Hutchinson Pavilion expansion: $5 million
*Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building sports performance facility addition: $15,015,103
*Indoor practice facility: $30.48 million
*Stormont Maintenance Facility upgrade: $4.1 million
*Glennen Field turf project: $2,330,450
