MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin System officials Thursday approved raising tuition for out-of-state, graduate and professional school students by hundreds of dollars at more than a half-dozen campuses as they grapple with a Republican-imposed freeze on in-state undergraduate tuition.
The plan calls for increases at UW-Eau Clare, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse, UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Stout and all the system’s two-year institutions beginning next fall. The increases range from $85 more per year for resident graduate students at La Crosse to thousands of dollars annually at UW-Madison.
That school’s plan includes raising annual nonresident undergraduate tuition from $31,523 to $35,523 by the fall of 2018, a 12 percent increase. Increases at UW-Madison’s professional schools will be even steeper.
A master’s degree in global real estate, which now costs $32,164 annually for nonresidents, will cost $43,280 by the fall of 2018, a 35 percent jump.
A year of medical school for Wisconsin residents will go from $28,650 to $34,478 by fall of 2018, a 20 percent increase; nonresidents will see the same 20 percent increase, from $38,546 to $46,387.
Wisconsin residents enrolled in the veterinary school will have to pay $29,626 per year by fall of 2018, a 36 percent jump; nonresident veterinary will face a 37 percent increase to $47,769 by then.
The campuses and system leaders contend they need the extra money in the face of the resident undergraduate freeze, which entered its fourth year this fall, and a $250 million cut Republicans imposed on the system in the current state budget. They also maintain the increases would bring nonresident rates more in line with peer institutions and dollars generated by the graduate increases will stay in those programs.
