Students attending Georgia’s three research institutions, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, will pay $1,000 more in tuition next year, a 16.5 percent hike from the 2009-2010 school-year. 

Students at two year schools will pay at least $50 more per semester.  Students who started the University under the short-lived “Fixed-for-Four” program that guaranteed tuition rates for four-years won’t see the increase unless they take longer than four years to graduate. 

The Board of Regents, however, did not increase student fees, a move students at UGA are pleased by.  Most students at UGA receive the HOPE scholarship, which covers tuition costs and automatically increases when tuition increases.  The scholarship does not pay for fees and is only given to students maintaining a high grade point average. 

The tuition increase, however, will only cover about 35 percent of the budget deficit for the University System.  The remainder will need to be made up by cuts at the individual colleges and universities.

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