OSU Trustees Set Tuition Increases

Oregon State University’s Board of Trustees have approved tuition rates and student fees for the 2025-26 school year. Spoiler-Alert, they will be increasing.

The average undergraduate tuition and fee increase is 4.9% for students at Oregon State’s Corvallis campus and OSU-Cascades in Bend. Continuing students will see a 4.8% increase, and rates for new students will increase 5.3%.

The university says the increases are driven by costs associated with teaching and serving a growing student body, labor costs and inflationary pressures for things such as utilities, insurance and materials that support the university’s teaching, research and outreach missions.

In a release, they also said, “Oregon State continues to concentrate efforts on improving access and affordability for students, particularly Oregon residents. Since 2021, the university has doubled the amount of institutionally provided financial assistance awarded.”

Other tuition increases include:

• 2% for resident graduate students.
• 5.3% for non-resident graduate students.
• 4.8% for continuing and new undergraduate students enrolled in Ecampus, Oregon State’s online education unit.
• 2% for continuing and new graduate Ecampus students.
• 3% to 7% for professional graduate programs such as pharmacy and veterinary medicine.

Student fees will also increase:

• Counseling and psychological services in Corvallis (3.8% increase).
• Student health services (3.5% increase in Corvallis and 5% in Bend).
• Financing capital projects for non-instructional buildings, primarily student centers, student health facilities and student recreational facilities ($11.80 per quarter increase in Corvallis and $1-2 per quarter increase in Bend).

Materials from the board meeting and its committee meetings, held March 7, can be found on the board’s website.