The UW System Board of Regents voted in June to raise tuition by 6.8 percent for resident undergraduate students for the upcoming school year. Undergrads at UW-Madison will pay $382 more per year under the new System budget.
This tuition increase comes on the heels of a 6.9 percent hike last year and a combined 35 percent rise in the two years before that.
Board of Regents President David Walsh said decreasing financial support from the state Legislature forced the Regents to raise tuition. State funds now make up less than 25 percent of the System's budget.
We have made every effort to keep s tuition as low as possible,' Walsh said. 'But as state support for the University drops, tuition must make up the difference. Our challenge is to convince the Legislature to reinvest in the UW System.'
