Purdue to host public hearing on tuition and fees
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Purdue University will hold a public hearing Monday to discuss proposed tuition and fees for students attending the university’s main campus in West Lafayette and Indianapolis, as well as Purdue Fort Wayne and Purdue Northwest.
The university’s board of trustees has already endorsed a tuition freeze for undergraduate students through the 2026-27 academic year.
For the main campus, Purdue is proposing no base tuition increase in 2025-26 and 2026-27.
However, the university is proposing an increase in international student fees for 2025-26, as well as an increase to the engineering, computer science/data science/artificial intelligence and Mitch Daniels School of Business differential fees for undergraduate non-resident and international students enrolling for the first time in the fall of 2026.
“On the main campus, differential fee changes will be used to offset increased costs in programs that require specialized technology, equipment, facilities and/or have unique professional accreditation requirements that are changing,” Purdue said in a news release.
On the Fort Wayne and Northwest campuses, the university is proposing no base tuition increase for the next two years, but a 3% annual tuition increase for non-resident and international students.
Purdue said those increases will be used to fund the operating budget, including faculty and staff salaries and benefits, scholarships, supplies, services, and repair and rehabilitation.
The public hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in Stewart Center on the West Lafayette campus. It will also be available for viewing online.
The Purdue board of trustees is expected to vote on the tuition and fee proposal at its next meeting on June 6.
Purdue isn’t the only Indiana institution proposing a tuition freeze for some students. Indiana University on June 12 will consider a proposal to keep tuition rates flat for in-state undergraduate students over the next two years.
However, University of Southern Indiana President Steve Bridges told Inside INdiana Business the university may need to raise tuition after the state cut some of its funding in the recently passed budget.