The University finance committee will propose an undergraduate in-state tuition increase of 8.8 percent at the Board of Visitors meeting April 5, which will raise it to $4,569.
"The Board usually doesn't make changes to our recommendations," said Colette Sheehy, vice president of management and budget. "We would anticipate that they would accept this."
This tuition proposal is in response to the General Assembly's budget, passed March 9, which cut the University's state general fund by $25.4 million for the next fiscal year.
In addition to the proposal, the remainder of the state budget cuts would affect all the academic schools and the University's "support units," such as the administration and the university library.
Each school's budget would be cut by 4.35 percent, and each support unit's would be cut by 4.6 percent.
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Each undergraduate student would have to pay $283 more in tuition, and $89 more in "auxiliary fees," including funds for athletics and student health.
One auxiliary fee proposal is a $50 increase for University sports, which may be in conflict with the current biannual state budget, a budget official at the Department of Planning and Budget said.
The first provision in the Virginia budget policy says that fees for personnel services can only increase by the amount the state appropriates for a salary increase. The second provision states that fees for non-personnel services cannot rise above the consumer price index for materials and supplies, Sheehy said.
Because the $50 increase for sports would violate this budget policy, the University will have to reach an agreement with the state on this issue before the Board can approve this measure, Sheehy added.
Virginia in-state graduate students would have to pay a higher annual tuition than undergraduates, at $5,635, a 9.7 percent increase from this year.
Out-of-state undergraduates would pay $19,779, an 8.5 percent increase, while out-of-state graduates would pay $18,725, a 2.7 percent rise from this year.
"We want to limit any increases in tuition for out-of-state grad students, because we know those increases would just lead to an increase in financial aid," Sheehy said.
Tuition rate increases for the Darden School, Law School and Medical School are higher than undergraduate rates. This is due to the fact that no state tuition policy exists to monitor these schools. Rather, their tuition rates are dependent on the market and on the rates of the schools with whom they compete.
The General Assembly is primarily concerned with maintaining low tuition rates for undergraduates, Sheehy said, because the legislature has to answer to tax-paying parents funding their children's education.
Also under the proposal, first-year in-state medical students' tuition would increase by 8.8 percent. Third- and fourth-year in-state medical students, however, would see an increase of 9.4 percent. Out-of-state medical students would pay 9.5 percent more, at $30,435.
In-state graduate students returning to the Darden School would pay $24,250, up 9.3 percent, while out-of-state returning graduate students' tuition would increase by 7.6 percent.
Incoming in-state Darden School students would pay $25,750, while incoming out-of-state students would pay $30,750.
Third-year in-state Law students' tuition would raise by 8 percent, second years would pay $19,367, up 7.5 percent, and first years would pay $20,567.
All out-of-state Law students would pay $26,907, up 6.6 percent.
Third- and fourth-year graduate students would have to pay less than younger students to prevent those already enrolled at the University from paying higher tuition than they have anticipated, Sheehy said. Entering students would pay more because they would be able to anticipate tuition costs before accepting enrollment.
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