TUITION/FEE INCREASE FOR FY2007 APPROVED
BY UHS BOARD OF REGENTS
Rising Energy Costs Play Significant Role in System-Wide Hike of
9.6 Percent
HOUSTON, April 3, 2006– The University of Houston System
Board of Regents has approved tuition and fee increases at its four
universities for fiscal year 2007.
The increases, which average 9.6 percent for the entire system,
will take effect with the fall 2006 semester. The change was discussed
and voted on in a specially called meeting Monday at the University
of Houston.
The UH System consists of UH, the University of Houston-Clear Lake,
the University of Houston-Downtown and the University of Houston-Victoria.
Defraying the cost of rising energy prices played a significant
role in the increases, accounting for a third of the system-wide
rise in tuition and fees.
At the University of Houston, which will have a 9.9 percent increase,
a resident undergraduate student taking 12 hours will pay about
$263 more per semester.
At UH-Clear Lake, with a 8.9 percent increase, the student will
pay about $172 more per semester.
At UH-Downtown, with a 9.9 percent increase, the student will pay
about $167 more per semester.
At UH-Victoria, with a 7.5 percent increase, the student will pay
about $132 more per semester.
For more information about the UH System Board of Regents, visit
http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/regents/.
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan
higher education system, encompassing four universities and two
multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University
of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive
research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year
undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate
programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University
of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level
institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land in Fort
Bend and the UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System
includes KUHF-FM, Houston’s National Public Radio and classical
radio station, and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational
television station.
For more information about UH visit the universitys Newsroom at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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