The total cost of tuition, fees and room and board for students enrolled in Emory College of Arts of Sciences will increase by 2.5 percent for the 2013-14 academic year.
At a meeting on Feb. 8, the University’s Board of Trustees increased undergraduate tuition from $42,400 to $43,400 – making the total cost of tuition, fees and room and board $56,470, according to a Feb. 8 University press release.
This year’s increase was smaller than in the past three years, according to Executive Vice President for Academic Affair and Provost Claire Sterk. Tuition increased by 4.1 percent in the 2012 to 2013 school year, 4.7 percent in the 2011 to 2012 school year and 2.9 percent in the 2010 to 2011, Sterk said.
Although most schools have yet to announce next year’s increases, Washington University in St. Louis has said it will increase its tuition rate by 3.8 percent and Princeton by 3.9 percent, according to Sterk. But, these numbers do not include increase in price of fees and room and board, which are included in Emory’s 2.5 percent increase, she said.
She added that more schools will announce their increases in tuition in the coming months. Sterk said that the University weighs multiple factors when determining the price of tuition.
“The main goal is to find the right balance between keeping increases minimal and being fiscally responsible in order to maintain high quality in all academic support service,” she wrote in an email to the Wheel.
Sterk also said that the University believes the 2.5 percent increase will positively affect enrollment.
“This modest increase will support our enrollment management strategies to recruit the best student, while being fiscally responsible and [ensuring] a high quality education and residential experience at Emory,” she said.
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An example of the great talent Emory attracts:
Mr. Eshaghoff spent freshman year at the University of Michigan, but transferred – for financial reasons, he said in an interview on Tuesday. “It was an expensive school,” he said. “Emory was better with financial aid.”
So after raking in $1.7 billion dollars in the “Campaign Emory” donation drive, after asking faculty to donate 2% of their salaries back to the uni (a generous proposal that no administrators followed, incidentally), and after cutting multiple departments, Emory now takes time to “reinvest in its students” by charging them yet more money for tuition. Shame on this school.
This marks a 14% + increase in tuition since 2010. It’s all well and good that Emory wants us to look to what Princeton is doing (though honestly there isn’t a chance in hell Princeton is looking at Emory as a peer) but this appeal to other institutions is a misdirection from asking hard questions about Emory’s expenditures. How is this kind of price hike appropriate HERE? Even the consultant from Bain Capital (!!!) says that this kind of increase is unsustainable.