ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Out-of-state undergraduate students attending the University of Central Florida will pay more for tuition after its Board of Trustees approved a 15% increase for them beginning this fall.<\/p>\n
University leaders said the increase is expected to generate nearly $9.8 million in additional annual revenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to go and tell them that I didn\u2019t want that to happen,\u201d said undergraduate student Dylan Beaudreau, who came from out of state to attend UCF.<\/p>\n
Beaudreau attended Thursday morning\u2019s Board of Trustees meeting to voice his concerns about the tuition increase.<\/p>\n
He said his family is trying to figure out how to afford the higher costs.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got to pay tuition by kind of the middle of August. So, it only gives you around a month\u2019s notice to get the dollars together,\u201d Beaudreau said. \u201cThat isn\u2019t easy to do for the average person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beaudreau isn\u2019t the only one with concerns. Sebastian Negron graduated from UCF this past May and was also an out-of-state undergraduate student.<\/p>\n
While he won\u2019t be affected by the increase, he said cost was an important factor when deciding where to attend college.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would hate for other people to rule out such an amazing school just because it\u2019s, you know, not their state, not the cheapest option,\u201d Negron said.<\/p>\n
This increase does not affect in-state students, out-of-state graduate students or out-of-state medical students.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrior to last year, UCF has not adjusted its undergraduate out-of-state fee in more than a decade,\u201d said Bert Francis, UCF Interim Vice President for Administration and Finance and University Treasurer.<\/p>\n
The increase will move UCF\u2019s undergraduate out-of-state tuition rate to the fourth-highest among the State University System of Florida\u2019s 12 institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat places UCF within the range of our peers, while remaining below several other institutions in the State University System,\u201d Francis said.<\/p>\n
According to university officials, the additional revenue will help improve instructional quality by funding faculty salary increases and recruiting and retention efforts, and it will support student success programs.<\/p>\n
Affected students will be notified directly and provided with information about available financial aid and other support resources, UCF officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Out-of-state undergraduate students attending the University of Central Florida will pay more for tuition after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4996,9995,6507,18924,113,115,1335,139,141,140,19386],"class_list":["post-342756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-education","tag-app-latest-education-stories","tag-ashley-engle","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-education","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-ucf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}