Tuition Hiked 4% at Pitt's Main Campus

The University of Pittsburgh announced that it is raising tuition rates for most of its students for the 2010 school year. Branch campus pupils and “first professional students” at the School of Medicine will not be affected, but in-state students will see a 4% tuition hike and out-of-state students will face a 2.5% raise.

Pitt spokesman Robert Hill says an infusion of stimulus cash is needed to ensure there won’t be an additional tuition surcharge later. “The stimulus money was, after all, in part designed to create and maintain jobs, assist families with tuition payments… That will have a great influence on the decision making that’s going on in Harrisburg and restore the [state appropriation] cuts back to what was in the original application,” says Hill.

Hill says a finalized budget might influence tuition rates further. “If the package comes in with an appropriation that occasions us to reexamine tuition levels higher, then that would result in a surcharge sometime in the future,” he says.

The yearly tuition of an average in-state, main campus student will rise from $12,832 to $13,344. Average out-of-state costs will increase $562, to $23,042.