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Starting this summer, new students enrolling at the University of Oregon will see higher tuition and fees, with out-of-state students facing the steepest increases. Returning students will continue to pay the amount they have been paying.
The University of Oregon is raising tuition for the upcoming academic year.
The university’s 17-member Board of Trustees voted Tuesday, March 17, to approve a 4.5% tuition increase for in-state students who are starting at UO between summer 2026 and spring 2027, and a 3% increase for new, out-of-state students.
That’s about $14 more per credit hour for in-state students, amounting to about $14,531 in tuition per year for full-time students. For out-of-state students, it’s an increase of $43 per credit hour, bringing total annual tuition to about $44,523.
Returning students will continue to pay the same amount in tuition and fees under UO’s fixed tuition rate program, established in 2020.
Incoming students’ one-time matriculation fee will rise by about $24 — or by 4.5%, the same rate as the undergraduate tuition hike — increasing from $545.35 to $569.89.
New students entering UO’s Lundquist College of Business and the Clark Honors College will face other increases. The university is hiking the business school’s undergraduate differential tuition — an additional school-specific cost — from $30 per credit hour to $50. The honors school will raise its differential tuition by 1%, hiking the fee from roughly $1,012 per term to $1,022.
“The cost of running our institution does not stay flat year after year, even if we’re trying to do nothing new,” UO Chief Financial Officer Jamie Moffitt told trustees. “We’re just trying to keep things going the way they’ve been going.”
UO has the highest tuition of all seven public universities in Oregon. Out-of-state student tuition revenue heavily subsidizes the education of in-state students, which is why those students face a greater tuition increase, officials said.
Moffitt said the revenue from tuition hikes will help the university cover costs projected to increase, primarily because of personnel. The university projects net expenses in its education and general fund to increase by $22.2 million in fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026, even after savings from last year’s budget cuts.
Some trustees voiced concern that driving up nonresident tuition will deter those out-of-state students from attending the university, presenting a potentially larger longer-term problem.
“We’re taking a big risk, we’re taking a big gamble, because if we see more decreased out-of-state tuition students, we’re going to be in a really difficult spot,” said Gerard Sandoval, a faculty trustee.
Meanwhile, the university receives the lowest level of state appropriations per resident student of all public universities in the state. Looking nationally, the university in FY2024 received the second-lowest level of state appropriations per full-time student of all public universities in the Association of American Universities, an invitation-only group of research universities.
“State government, particularly Oregon state government, has had many fiscal challenges,” UO President Karl Scholz said. “Cutting or not funding universities is always a possibility, because, ‘Oh, they can raise tuition.’”