Tuition rates at Brigham Young University will drop 27 percent for spring/summer terms in 1995 while fall/winter rates for 1994-95 will rise slightly.
Undergraduates will pay $400 per term for spring and summer in 1995 - a $150 discount on current spring/summer rates and a 27.3 percent drop.Fall/winter rates will rise 6.4 percent to $1,170 for undergraduates.
The spring/summer reduction is part of President Rex Lee's desire to entice more students to campus during the spring/summer terms and leave more room for incoming freshmen for fall/winter semesters, said BYU spokesman Brent Harker.
BYU has a full-time day student enrollment cap of 27,000, but it has exceeded that limit in recent years. Current enrollment is 28,222, Harker said.
Reducing tuition, as well as offering $1 million in scholarships, helps free space for incoming freshmen in the fall without breaking the cap.
"We're making progress on that," Harker said.
Approximately 12,400 people enrolled for the 1993 spring term, Harker said, and the increased financial incentive may boost that number to 14,000 in 1995.
Long-range spring/summer goals are to increase not only students but also faculty and the number of classes offered, Harker said.
"This is President Lee's highest priority," Harker said.
Other changes for fall/winter 1994-95 include a 6.2 percent cost increase for graduate students, bringing tuition to $1,370, and a 4.8 percent raise for law and graduate management students, making tuition $2,200.
Changes in the 1995 spring/
summer rates will bring graduate tuition to $685 and law and graduate management tuition to $1,100.
Tuition rates for non-LDS students are 50 percent higher. BYU is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.