Skylark

Just received a message from another poster that GT no longer going to guarantee tuition for incoming freshman.

Can anyone elaborate? What will the tuition be for out of state students?

See this link for details

Regents Honor Guaranteed Tuition for Current Students; but End Guarantee for Incoming Freshmen - Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

G.P.Burdell

That really upsets me. The Board of Regents are a joke - people who know nothing about college and are only qualified because they donated to the governor's reelection campaign.

Skylark

This is really upsetting. One of the reasons we decided on GT was the frozen tuition. For out of state folks this is going to be a real challenge. Can't find anything though about the actual dollar cost for OOS students.

If we had known this, we may have weighed other options.

jim1980

For incoming freshmen, it looks like the tuition raise 12,000 to 15,000 a semester (if a student took more than six credits) for Out-Of-State + 500 fees. So that's 15500 per semester.

For existing student, the tuition stayed at the same rate as frozen for four remain effect.

iconplaybass

Wow, that is a big change from the COA on GT's web site. This will complicate things for many students.

Skylark

This fee may be open for discussion. We just downloaded the following tuition chart

http://www.usg.edu/student_affairs/t...chart_2009.pdf

If we read this correctly, Appendix IIA indicates the new flat rate for tuition of out-of-state students will be $12,140.00 per semester for more than 6 hours or for $24,280 for the year.

This is info in found in the third box down in the center titled new Flat Tuition Model at the Univ of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Tech.

This tuition appears to be going back to close to the 2008 cost for OOS which was $11,994 or for 1 year $23,998.

Does this seem accurate to the rest of you?

iconplaybass

The GT website here:

Georgia Institute of Technology :: Financial Aid :: Cost of Attendance

Tuition and fees for Fall 2009 are said to be $26940!

Skylark

Jim1980, I am not sure if your OOS calculations are accurate since the flat rate fee based on the appendix shows a tuition cost of $12,140 not $15,000 and a $100.00 fee per semester not $250.00 or $500.00 per year.

The current cost on the GT site is not based on the new flat fee or the fact they are going to the 2008 tuition cost.

Bottom line, its confusing.

jim1980

Sorry, I could be wrong on the calculation if the link http://www.usg.edu/student_affairs/t...chart_2009.pdf is correct. It seems out-of-stater didn't get hit as bad this time.

I based my calculation on the article in ajc.

Regents suspend fixed tuition program | ajc.com

iconplaybass

I'm sort of surprised they DIDN'T hit up the OOS more. Usually, that is more politically expedient than raising rates on your own local students.

Skylark

Hi:

Hopefully...this will be the case. Our concern is are they going to do something crazy and increase the tuition way high the remaining three years.

I guess the whole package still needs to get final approval before going into effect so there still might be some changes.

mitan_da1

"That really upsets me. The Board of Regents are a joke - people who know nothing about college and are only qualified because they donated to the governor's reelection campaign."

With competent people like and those who run the Secretary of Education it is not surprise that Georgia is 46 in SAT scores and only has relevant public universities.

gthopeful

There's no reason to raise tuition for in-state students. The vast majority of in-state Tech students have their tuition paid for by HOPE and so the effect is the government giving more money to Tech. It's the same deal in Florida with Bright Futures.

Unfortunately they're gutting the coffers of OOS students. They're already losing enough people (such as my undergrad self) due to the cost, and this will only turn away more people that justified going here over other similar schools based on the fact that it is the second cheapest sticker price of any of the US News top 50.

There are so many other ways Tech could cut costs. The top of the list for cost-cutting measures is firing people like the director of diversity, Stephanie Ray (see an overview of her job here http://www.diversity.gatech.edu/about-DIR.php ). I have nothing against her personally, just what her bullsh** job represents which is the ridiculous growth in recent years of superfluous administrative roles. This phenomenon is hardly confined to Tech, either. I read an blurb from a professor at MIT that said that the number of administrators had doubled in the last 40 years to the point where they cost an extra 6000 dollars a year in tuition to support.

G.P.Burdell

I bet that department is primarily funded through grants. Even if it's not, it's not really all that expensive to operate in the grand scheme of things (well, other than the fact that the department gets sued periodically over Safe Space).

One huge problem with the Board of Regents is the fact that they let Tech keep less than half of the tuition collected from Tech students. So, Out of State students pay a ton of tuition, that's ever increasing, and most of that money doesn't even go to Tech. It goes to 2-year junior colleges and smaller state schools that are not economically viable.

It's all a huge joke. First of all, the University System should not be run by political appointees - it should be run by experts in college education. Look at the Regent's Bios. They're lawyers, executives, and one car dealership owner. Some of them have degrees from schools in Georgia, and some don't: <http://www.usg.edu/regents/bios/>. We should get together and donate to the next governor's election campaign and get ourselves appoints to the BOR.

Second, each University should be independently accountable for it's financial performance. Using money from an Out of State Aerospace Engineering student at Georgia Tech to pay for the tractor used by an in-state Diversified Agriculture student at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is borderline Socialism.

nojunkviolins

http://www.usg.edu/student_affairs/t...chart_2009.pdf
I called GT and was told that no more tuition lockin for coming freshman. The new tuition fee can be found on the above address.
The letter from financial aid office on COA is estimated. I was told that for OOS the new tuition is actually lower than estimate. More infos on the costs of board and meal plan are coming soon. Check e-mail often.