Current and prospective students who wish to pursue collegiate educational opportunities at Virginia Tech are faced with a 2.9% tuition increase.
On Monday, March 26 the Board of Visitors at Virginia Tech University voted in favor of a tuition and fees hike of 2.9% effective during the next upcoming regular school semester beginning in September of this year. Increased tuition and fees will raise the costs of undergraduate studies at the University by several hundred dollars. Tuition for in-state students during the 2018-19 school year will be $390 higher than undergraduate students paid for their education last (this current) school year. Out of state students will face a bigger cost increase of nearly $900. Recently approved increases in tuition costs and fees at Virginia Tech will be the 17th consecutive year in which education costs at the University have gone up. In December of last year, two other prestigious Virginia Universities, -The College of William and Mary and James Madison University, also voted to increase costs effective at the start of the 2018-19 school year.
Virginia Tech’s annual in-state tuition cost of $13,620 will, however, remain lower than that of William and Mary’s in-state cost of $17,434. James Madison will provide Virginia residents with a cheaper educational option during 2018-2019 which will total roughly $8,300. Out of state costs will still be more expensive at James Madison than at Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech, unlike William and Mary and James Madison, has not indicated nor guaranteed that incoming freshman and currently enrolled students’ tuition costs will be “frozen.” Frozen tuition rates would equate to no tuition increases to students from rates paid during their first year of study until the completion undergraduate degree programs within a five-year time frame.
