COLUMBUS – If the OSU Board of Trustees approve the measure, incoming freshmen from Ohio will see their tuition frozen – allowing a little wiggle room for inflation – until 2021.
Tuition proposals for 2018-19 will go before the board this week and one of them would lock in costs for incoming students for four years with a 1.4 percent inflation-based increase, extending the university’s Ohio State Tuition Guarantee to a second cohort of first-year students, spokesman Chris Davey said.
Last year’s freshman class was the inaugural group for the guarantee, which covers in-state tuition, fees, housing and dining.
Under the latest proposal, tuition would remain unchanged at all campuses for continuing students who started prior to autumn 2017. Next year’s graduates will be the fourth class to complete degrees without experiencing a tuition increase, Davey said.
The university will also provide an iPad Pro with learning and living technology tools to each new first-year student at the Columbus and regional campuses, part of a collaboration with Apple, Davey said.
In-state tuition and fees in Columbus would total $10,726 per year for incoming first-year students. The total guaranteed cost, including the most common housing and dining plans would be $23,160.
The non-resident surcharge will be increased 4.8 percent for undergraduates, bringing the total cost of tuition and fees for out-of-state students to $30,742.
The Board of Trustees and its committees will meet Wednesday through Friday at the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, 452 West 10th Avenue, and at the Longaberger Alumni House, 2220 Olentangy River Road.