MARQUETTE, MI-- The Northern Michigan University Board of Trustees has raised tuition and fees by 4.9 percent for the coming school year for full-time resident undergraduates.
The board approved rates for the 2019-2020 academic year at a meeting Thursday on campus. The combined average cost for tuition and fees will be $5,796 per semester, an increase of $271 per semester. The combined rate increase of tuition and fees and room and board amounts to 2.9 percent.
The board also increased university-funded financial aid by $1 million dollars. Officials say NMU remains the second-most affordable university in the state.
Because the state of Michigan has yet to finalize a fiscal year 2020 budget, the NMU board considered the preliminary Executive, House and Senate proposals in making its tuition and fees decision. Trustees indicated they would amend the increase to align with tuition restraint language, if necessary, following final passage of the FY 2020 state budget.