Purdue to Increase Fees for '26-'27 for international students and certain majors

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“Optional fees are also routinely reviewed. For 2025-26, international student fees will increase by $500 per semester for undergraduate and professional master’s students and by $45 for graduate students not enrolled in a professional master’s program. In 2026-27, for undergraduate nonresident and international students enrolling for the first time in fall 2026 or after, there will be a $1,000 per-semester increase to the engineering, computer science/data science/artificial intelligence and Mitch Daniels School of Business differential fees. Indiana residents, graduate students and all students enrolled prior to fall 2026 will not be impacted by this change. As in previous revisions of optional fees, these fee changes will be used to offset increased costs in programs that require specialized technology, equipment and facilities or have unique professional accreditation requirements that are changing. Differential fees have long been present and are routinely updated as needed.”

There was also an increase in the university’s estimate of other expenses for '25-'26: Undergraduate Tuition and Fees — 2025-2026 - Finance.

As a result the COA inches closer to $50K/year vs the $42 - $45K it used to be.

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I guess they can still say no increases - for the local students.

I wonder about the international increases because, I don’t know what will happen but I assume there will be less overall and thus more competition.

I’m guessing they’ll still be a great value but those of us who recommend it as budget friendly will need to dig a bit deeper going forward.

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I wondered about the increase in international fees too. Purdue has a high percentage of international students on campus (24%) so I wonder if they are expecting fewer students and are trying to make up for it with higher fees.

Tuition compared to peer schools is still very good but as you noted, it’s not quite the bargain it used to be.

I also wanted to put this out there because you and many other posters are great at recommending lower cost schools and Purdue often comes up, and this has been very quietly announced.

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