Trustees approve tuition hike at JSU

The Jacksonville State University board of trustees approved a 6 percent increase in tuition Monday during their quarterly meeting, following two years with no increase in undergraduate tuition. The increase will help fund a 2 percent pay raise for faculty and staff, who last received an increase in 2013.

Undergraduate tuition will increase by $17 to $300 per credit hour. That means Alabama residents who are full-time students will pay at least $7,200 for tuition per year. Students from most places out-of-state will pay double that.

Tuition for graduate and doctoral students also will rise by $22 to $371 per credit hour, about $6,678 per year for full-time grad students.

Trustees said they weigh tuition increases seriously, and promised to adjust the tuition increase if more state funding is allocated to JSU from the Legislature this year.