UD announces tuition for 2005-06

12:49 p.m., July 5, 2005--The University of Delaware announced today that it is increasing tuition for the 2005-6 academic year by 4.9 percent. Effective with the fall semester, annual tuition for full-time University of Delaware undergraduate and graduate students will increase by $310 for residents and by $780 for nonresidents.

The new annual rates are $6,614 for Delawareans and $16,770 for nonresident students.

According to a recent informal survey by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, tuition increases across the nation this year averaged 6.8 percent.

“The University of Delaware has become well-known as an institution offering the best in academic quality at a reasonable cost,” University President David P. Roselle said. “The University’s solid management and the overwhelming success of its recent capital campaign have enabled us to hold our tuition to a more modest increase than many other institutions.

“In addition, we have been able to increase our financial aid significantly over the last decade so that we are able to provide significant assistance to those who can least afford to pay and also to provide scholarships for students of outstanding academic merit,” Roselle said.

Tuition and fee hikes for the 2005-06 academic year reflect several factors, including salary increases, increases in employee health insurance fees, water and energy costs, and expansion and enlargement of certain programs, he said.

Full-time graduate tuition is the same as that for undergraduates, with the exception of those in-state students pursuing the master of business administration (MBA) degree. The new tuition rate for full-time Delaware resident MBA students will increase by $381 to $8,106.

The University of Delaware is one of the most popular schools in the country. For this fall’s entering class, UD received more than 24,000 applications for 3,450 spaces.

In the fall of 2004, UD received four-star rankings for campus life and selectivity in The Princeton Review’s 2005 annual college guide, The Best 357 Colleges, which includes only about 15 percent of American undergraduate institutions, and U.S. News and World Report’s 2005 “America’s Best Colleges” issue ranked UD 26th among the nation’s top public universities and 66th among all national universities, both public and private.

In May, the University’s Board of Trustees approved average increases of 3.9 percent for dining rates and 7 percent for residence hall rates, also effective in the fall.

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