LANSING – The University of Michigan approved so far the smallest tuition increase among the 15 state universities and one of its smallest in many years, while Michigan State University approved its expected plan to hike tuition for upper division students more.
The U-M Board of Regents approved only a 1.1 percent increase for the coming school year at its Ann Arbor campus, setting annual tuition at $13,142. For out-of-state students, the increase was 3.2 percent to $40,392 annually.
U-M Dearborn and U-M Flint students did not fare as well, with tuition for resident undergraduates increasing 3.5 percent.
The MSU Board of Trustees approved tuition increases of 3.6 percent for juniors and seniors, but 1.9 percent for freshmen and sophomores.
The average 2.8 percent increase was below what several other universities had adopted.
The university said in a release that it was able to keep the increases down in part because state aid will increase 1.82 percent for the coming fiscal year, when officials had designed the budget around a projected flat state aid payment.
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