Tuition Hike

I found out that BYU will increase tuition for 2006-2007 to $1,810 a semester. This is an increase of $105.

Not that this is a surprise. I’ve thought for sometime that tuition has been unusually low. There are a couple of things though that bug me about this. The first is that this announcement comes only two months before tuition needs to be paid. Somehow my long term budget all of a sudden needs to find an extra $105. I think they could have announced the increase in tuition earlier in order to give students the time to budget the extra nickels and dimes.

The other thing that worries me, is that if I remember back to tuition when I was a freshmen, I seem to remember it being below $1500. Fourteen hundred and something dollars. Thats what tuition was when I first started to attend here. Three to four hundred dollars of increase of tuition in the time I’ve been here worries me. Then again, now that I think, I’ve been here for a while and the increase is probably just normal.