Lindenwood Increases Tuition Rates, Fees

Students attending Lindenwood University's satellite campus in Wentzville will see a 4.3 tuition increase beginning this summer, according to a university release issued Monday.

That means a student with a nine-hour undergraduate schedule will have to spend $3,060 per quarter, while graduate students with the same course load will have to fork over $3,708 per quarter.   

The Wentzville campus is used mostly for the university's accelerated evening program (LCIE) program, said Chris Duggan, Lindenwood's communications coordinator. 

The university's Wentzville campus opened in 2000 and sees more than 600 students walk through its doors each year (not counting duplicates), Duggan said.

Lindenwood President James D. Evans said the increase is necessary because of rising costs of operation. 

Undergraduate students attending and living at the university's main campus in St. Charles will see a 3.8 percent increase in tuition beginning this fall. That means undergraduate students who live on campus will pay $22,180 starting in fall 2012, as compared to $21,360 in 2011. 

In 2011-12, the average increase for tuition and room and board at private nonprofit colleges and universities was 4.5 percent, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.