Ohio University students in the College of Osteopathic Medicine will pay more in tuition and fees next year.
Tuition for the college will increase from $7,650 to $8,037 per quarter, an action the Board of Trustees approved in April.
The two-year tuition freeze for Ohio's public colleges and universities does not apply to the College of Osteopathic Medicine, said Rebecca Vazquez Skillings, director of Budget Planning and Analysis. She said the legislation only applies to the undergraduate instructional and general fees, not graduate or professional education.
The tuition increase in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, which has about 430 full-time students and 87 full-time faculty members, will support the college's clinical training program and improve a system used to track curricula and students. The increase will also support a proposed new teaching facility and increases in staff salaries, said John Brose, dean of the college.
It is important to keep up with inflation and be in competition with other medical schools
Brose said. They base salaries in order to stay competitive.
Brose said the medical college is on a separate budget from OU and receives funding from the state but pays for the use of buildings, maintenance and parking lots. Next year's projected budget for the college is $24.8 million.
The school tries to keep tuition and fees at a minimum because students are already a great deal in debt Brose said.
In addition to an increase in tuition, the learning resource and technology fee will increase from $251 to $261, said Kathy Brooks, chief financial officer for the college.
She said the fee covers a portion of the expenses for the learning resource center, information systems and technology, and the clinical training and assessment center.
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