No Tuition Hike At Most Georgia Universities Following Regents Vote

GEORGIA — For the third year in a row, tuition at many of Georgia's universities will not go up.

The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents voted Tuesday to not raise tuition rates at 25 of its 26 academic institutions for the 2022-23 school year.

The one exception is for Middle Georgia State University, which is beginning the first in a three-year plan to bring undergraduate tuition into alignment with other universities in the same academic sector. This means increases ranging from $17 per credit hour for in-state undergraduates to $64 per credit hour for out-of-state undergraduate students.

The board also approved eliminating a mandatory special institutional fee charged since 2009 to students systemwide. In the past, these fees have ranged anywhere from $170 to $544 per semester depending on which institution students attend.

"The university system’s longstanding commitment to affordability helps empower students, keeping them on track to learn the skills they need to get good jobs in a highly skilled workforce,” USG Chancellor Sonny Perdue said in a news release. “That workforce is critical to the economic development that has allowed Georgia to thrive, and we are grateful to Gov. Kemp and the General Assembly for passing a state budget this year that provides record support for public higher education and USG institutions statewide.”

USG has the third-lowest median in-state tuition and fees for undergraduates at four-year institutions among the 16 states that make up the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), according to the latest data available.

The system also averages the 13th-lowest annual tuition and fees in the nation.