Faced with continued budgetary cutbacks in higher education from the state legislature, Michigan's 15 public universities, including Eastern Michigan University, have raised tuition to make up the difference in its operating budgets. EMU raised tuition 13.5 percent, with 9.5 percent required to balance the non-capital operating budgets and 4 percent dedicated to address outstanding facility needs, including the issuance of new debt. While a number of universities had variations on what and how the tuition increases would be used, the following are the actual tuition percentage increases approved by the boards of various universities.

Central Michigan University 19 percent (new students), 9.2 percent (average for all undergraduates)

Wayne State University 18.5 percent

Western Michigan University 14.3 percent

Michigan State University 13.5 percent (new students)/9.3 percent (returning students)

Eastern Michigan University 13.5 percent

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 12.3 percent

University of Michigan-Flint 11.9 percent

University of Michigan-Dearborn 11.9 percent

Lake Superior State University 9.9 percent

Northern Michigan University 9.8 percent

Oakland University 9.5 percent

Ferris State University 8.9 percent

Michigan Technological University 7.7 percent

Grand Valley State University 7.6 percent

Saginaw Valley State University 7.5 percent

Source: Various news reports

 

 

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