A 5-percent increase in tuition and a nearly 6-percent increase in the campus activity fee won’t be enough to offset a significant decrease in total revenue at Emporia State University.
The Kansas Board of Regents says the tuition increase proposal would generate close to $1 million for ESU, but it would also lose over $2 million, thanks to overall enrollment changes, the “student mix” and on-campus versus off-campus trends — as well as over $1 million through a decrease in general fees funding.
In talking with KVOE News about the tuition increases Thursday, Vice President of Administration and Finance Diana Kuhlmann said ESU kept its tuition increase as low as it possibly could.
The projected fiscal 2024 tuition revenue used several factors, including a forecast of declining 5 percent enrollment, both for undergraduate and graduate student categories, as well as income reductions for discontinued programs and implementing a tuition waiver to the resident rate for the other “lower 47” states for on-campus undergraduate students.
The Board of Regents approved the 5-percent tuition increase for all student categories this week.
