Tuition at Brigham Young University will rise 6 percent for undergraduate students for the 1992-1993 school year.
Undergraduates will pay $1,060 per semester, advance-standing students will pay $1,080 and law school and graduate school of management students will pay $1,900. Students who are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which sponsors the private university, will pay 50 percent more for tuition than students who are members of the church."The interesting thing that needs to be kept in mind is that the LDS Church pays two-thirds of the actual cost to educate at BYU," said BYU spokesman Paul Richards said. "We are sorry that we are forced to increase tuition, but the facts of life are that we need to meet operating costs in order to function."
The decision to raise the tuition was recently approved by the university's Board of Trustees and will not go into effect until the fall semester of 1992.
"We are announcing these things earlier than we used to in order to give people more time to plan for the increase," Richards said.
Tuition at BYU has steadily risen each year since the 1974-1975 school year to meet university's increased costs. The highest increase since that time has been 13.4 percent in 1981-1982. The lowest increase occurred in 1984-1985 with a 4.47-percent increase.
Determining tuition increases is a year-round budget process, with officials already looking at a higher tuition for the 1993-94 school year, Richards said.
"We're trying not to cut back on education, but we are being very careful in how we expend our education resources. We have more audits and require more justification for improvements in facilities. We are shepherding maximum education value for every dollar spent," Richards said.