Students attending Governors State University in University Park will pay about 3 percent more in tuition this fall, the university has announced.
Under the new tuition schedule, full-time students residing in Illinois will see their tuition for each of the university’s trimesters increase to $1,140 from $1,104. Tuition for full-time out-of-state students will rise to $3,420 from $3,312.
Meanwhile, the tuition for full-time, in-state graduate students will increase to $1,212 from $1,176 for each trimester, and to $3,636 from $3,528 for full-time out-of-state graduate students.
Despite the increases, Governors State will continue to maintain the lowest tuition of any public university in Illinois, said university spokesman John Harris.
The increases are part of an annual incremental tuition increase schedule tied to the consumer price index and approved by the university’s board of trustees last year.
“The incremental increases help our students better plan for their future by not hitting them with large increases all at one time,” Harris said. “It also helps the university to better plan for its future.”
Part-time tuition rates for undergraduate and graduate students also will increase by about 3 percent under the new tuition schedule.
A part-time, in-state undergraduate student will pay $95 per credit hour beginning in the fall, up from $92. Part-time tuition for out-of-state undergraduate students will rise to $285 a credit hour from $276.
Part-time, in-state graduate students, meanwhile, will see their tuition jump to $101 a credit hour from $98, and part-time out-of-state graduate students will pay $303 a credit hour beginning in the fall, up from $294.
In addition to the tuition hikes, the university also is increasing two student fees by $1. The student center and counseling and career service fees will each increase to $21.
Governors State University, established as part of the state’s public university system about 30 years ago, serves about 10,000 college students from throughout the Chicago area and northwest Indiana.
