BYU to raise tuition by 3%, or $92 per undergraduate semester

PROVO — Tuition is going up again at the state's largest private university.

Brigham Young University will increase tuition for the 2022-23 academic year by about 3%, or from $3,060 to $3,152 per undergraduate per semester for students who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the school announced Monday. That's an increase of $92 per semester.

The increase is intended to cover the costs of supplies, library needs and laboratory materials, the school said.

Graduate students will also see a 3% rise in tuition cost, or about $116 per semester to $3,966. BYU law and graduate students in the Marriott School of Business will pay $7,318, an increase of $214 from last year's rate.

Undergraduate tuition for spring and summer 2023 terms will also increase from $1,530 to $1,576, or $46 more. Spring and summer rates for advanced-standing students will be $1,984, an increase of $58.

Students who are not members of the university's sponsoring faith pay roughly twice the tuition rates as church member students, so nonmember rates will increase to $6,304 per semester for undergraduates, $7,932 for graduate or advanced-standing students, and $14,636 for law and business graduate students.

It's the second year in a row that BYU has raised tuition, after a 2.5% increase for the 2021-22 academic year. That compared favorably to other in-state tuition rates, including roughly $3,005 per semester for undergraduate students at nearby Utah Valley University who are Utah residents ($8,546 for nonresidents) and $260 per credit hour at the University of Utah. Public schools in the Utah System of Higher Education raised tuition rates by an average of 3.41% last fall.

BYU graduated just over 6,800 students last week during commencement and convocation exercises, the first in-person graduation activities since April 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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