Tuition to rise $2000 for next school year
Lauren Reese & Kait Heckenberger
Issue date: 2/26/10 Section: News
Tuition and room and board costs at HPU are being raised from $33,400 to $35,400 next year.
HPU started using a comprehensive fee four years ago following behind only a few other colleges in the U.S. that also use a comprehensive fee, some of them being Amherst College, Middlebury College, and Colby College.
A student's extra $2,000 strictly goes to 25 new faculty members, three new majors, and faculty salaries, according to vice president for academic affairs Dennis Carroll. The new faculty come at a high price due to their higher education from
prominent colleges.
Each student's tuition fee is exempt from the cost of any new buildings, such as the Greek Village and the education building that are still under deliberation. "We've [HPU endowment] issued some bonds and some debt," said vice president for financial affairs William Duncan, regarding new and future buildings costs.
The increase still puts HPU at a lower price than its comparable competition of Elon, Wake Forest and Furman University. In fact, according to Duncan, HPU is $15,000 less than Wake Forest.
An influx of new students brings an increase in tuition to compensate for HPU's room and board. HPU is expecting 500 more students on campus for the fall semester than presently reside on campus. Currently, 2,717 students are enrolled in the traditional day program, the majority of whom live on campus.
HPU started using a comprehensive fee four years ago following behind only a few other colleges in the U.S. that also use a comprehensive fee, some of them being Amherst College, Middlebury College, and Colby College.
A student's extra $2,000 strictly goes to 25 new faculty members, three new majors, and faculty salaries, according to vice president for academic affairs Dennis Carroll. The new faculty come at a high price due to their higher education from
prominent colleges.
Each student's tuition fee is exempt from the cost of any new buildings, such as the Greek Village and the education building that are still under deliberation. "We've [HPU endowment] issued some bonds and some debt," said vice president for financial affairs William Duncan, regarding new and future buildings costs.
The increase still puts HPU at a lower price than its comparable competition of Elon, Wake Forest and Furman University. In fact, according to Duncan, HPU is $15,000 less than Wake Forest.
An influx of new students brings an increase in tuition to compensate for HPU's room and board. HPU is expecting 500 more students on campus for the fall semester than presently reside on campus. Currently, 2,717 students are enrolled in the traditional day program, the majority of whom live on campus.
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Micael Benedict
posted 3/11/10 @ 12:57 PM EST
+ $2,000. Thats a 6% increase - approximatly 50% than the "average" private top tier US college. With many of them doing all possible to hold the line on increases this year. (Continued…)
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