Changes in Undergraduate Tuition Structure for
Wisconsin Reciprocity and Nonresident Students

The University of Minnesota will implement two changes in its tuition policies and practices for undergraduate students beginning with new students matriculating in fall 2008.

1. First, new Wisconsin reciprocity students will be assessed the Minnesota resident rate, but will also receive a reciprocity grant funded by the state of Wisconsin. Current Wisconsin reciprocity students will continue to pay the rates they would be charged at a comparable University of Wisconsin campus (e.g., Wisconsin students on the Twin Cities campus will continue to be assessed the Madison campus rates).
2. Second, new undergraduate students on the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses from outside the North Dakota/South Dakota/Wisconsin reciprocity region will be assessed a nonresident tuition rate that is significantly lower than the current nonresident rate.
• For students on the Duluth campus the new annual rate will be the Minnesota resident rate plus $2,000.
• For students on the Twin Cities campus the new annual rate will be the Minnesota resident rate plus $4,000.
• Current nonresident students will continue to be charged a higher rate, but most will also continue to receive the University waivers, scholarships, and grants that reduce this rate significantly. All continuing nonresident students will also continue to be eligible for other scholarships and grants.
• New Midwest Exchange Program (MSEP) students will pay the new nonresident rate, as that rate will be less than the MSEP rate.

It is important to understand that this change for nonresident students is a change in systems, from the current system of a higher tuition rate that is discounted in some way for most nonresident students to a new, simpler system with a lower tuition rate, with much less discounting.

This year more than 75 percent of the undergraduate students on the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses from outside the reciprocity area receive a significant discount from the University in the form of waivers, scholarships, and grants. Some others are strongly supported by third parties.

The University will provide new financial support in the form of scholarships and grants to some of the continuing nonresident students who do not now receive such support. Students who are eligible to apply will be contacted directly by the University by March 1, 2008 regarding application procedures.

Final tuition rates for 2008-09 will not be approved by the Board of Regents until May, 2008.

Students who want to know more about these changes or who want to speak with someone about them can do so by first contacting tuition.change@umn.edu.