Academic year 2025-26 tuition and fee recommendation for board consideration

The following is my tuition and fee proposal for the 2025-26 academic year, which is based on the recommendations I received from the students, faculty, and staff who comprise the Tuition and Fee Advisory Board (TFAB). In making this decision, I reviewed the TFAB recommendations, accepted direct feedback from students and other stakeholders who took part in a public forum, solicited feedback through an online survey, and discussed tuition issues with a wide variety of stakeholders.

The Oregon Guarantee Tuition Program 

The University of Oregon is in its fifth year of the guaranteed tuition program, the Oregon Guarantee, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in the spring of 2020 and has transformed the UO’s undergraduate tuition model. Under guaranteed tuition, the rate of tuition and administratively controlled mandatory fees for each new class of undergraduate students does not change for five years. 

2025 Undergraduate Cohort Tuition and Fees

The undergraduate tuition rates that you will be considering only impact next year’s incoming class. For these incoming students, the 2025 Tuition Cohort of undergraduates, I support TFAB’s recommendation, which is as follows: 

  • Resident tuition: $309.02 per student credit hour (3.75 percent above the 2024 Tuition Cohort rate). Full-time tuition (45 credit hours per year) for new resident undergraduates will be locked at $13,905.90 per year for five cohort years.
  • Non-resident tuition: $960.58 per student credit hour (3.25 percent above the 2024 Tuition Cohort rate). Full-time tuition (45 credit hours per year) for new non-resident undergraduates will be $43,226.10 per year for five cohort years.
  • Total adjusted administratively controlled mandatory fees: 3.98 percent higher than the 2024 Tuition Cohort rate.

Graduate Programs Tuition and Fees

I also support TFAB’s recommendation to approve the approximately 80 separate tuition rates for graduate programs across the UO. Almost all of the proposed graduate tuition rate increases for 2025-26 range from no increase to an increase of 4.1 percent (see TFAB memo for all proposed rates). 

The schools and colleges undertook a project to review and simplify graduate tuition rate structures beginning in the spring 2024. These changes can be segmented into several primary adjustments:

  • Elimination of front-loaded tuition (higher first-credit cost), which decreases the cost substantially for part-time students but may increase the cost slightly for full-time students.
  • Standardizing the tuition plateau structure (charging the same amount for a band of credits) at 9-16 for all programs that have a plateau (except for law where the plateau is 9-17 credits).
  • Bringing summer term tuition rates in line with academic year tuition rates. Summer term has typically been run at a discounted tuition rate. However, that may not cover the actual cost and does not make sense in programs where significant components are offered during the summer.

I also support the TFAB recommendation to increase administratively controlled graduate student mandatory fees by 2.98 percent total (that is, by $22/term). 

I want to thank all the members of TFAB for their hard work and dedication, and all other members of the university community who provided information and participated in the process. This proposal is the product of nine open meetings, an open forum in January cohosted by TFAB and ASUO, hours and hours of analysis, and work by a group of volunteer students, faculty, and staff who care deeply about the UO and its ability to deliver quality, affordability, and accessibility.