The University of Connecticut is hosting two town halls this week to discuss tuition and student fees for the upcoming 2027-28 academic year.
The first town hall is today at 5 p.m. and will be held virtually. The second town hall is on Thursday at 12 p.m. and will be held both virtually and in-person in room 304B of the Student Union on the Storrs campus.
Students can submit questions about the proposed tuition and fees for university leadership via email to budget@uconn.edu.
This is one of the final steps before the proposed fees go before the Board of Trustees, which will review and vote on the final fee amounts in December.
The tuition and fees at issue include those of the undergraduate and graduate students at Storrs and at the regional campuses at Avery Point, Hartford, Waterbury and Stamford, as well as some fees that apply to the School of Social Work and School of Law and the university’s various professional programs.
Other than tuition, there are seven main fees on each bill for undergraduate and graduate students: the general university fee, Student Health and Wellness, infrastructure maintenance, transit, technology, student activity and housing and dining. Most of these fees differ in cost between campuses, with Storrs students paying more.
Last year, tuition and the general university fee remained the same across all campuses. The remaining fees, including the housing and dining rates, saw slight increases of less than $100 each. According to University Spokesperson Stephanie Reitz, the university is committed to being affordable for students.
“UConn’s guiding principles when setting fees are to protect affordability by increasing them only when necessary to cover increased costs; to make the fees easily understood with transparent, simple descriptions; and to use the revenue to help ensure the financial stability and quality of the programming it funds,” she wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Campus.
Many UConn undergraduates also receive financial aid to help with the cost of attendance.
“Almost three-quarters of UConn’s undergraduates are receiving some form of gift aid they do not have to repay,” Reitz wrote.
While all fee amounts will be finalized by the board in December, how exactly the money is allocated for some fees will not be finalized until next semester.
The student activity fee goes towards the university’s Tier III organizations such as The Daily Campus, Nutmeg Publishing, UConn Student Television, WHUS Radio, Undergraduate Student Government and the Student Union Board of Governors. The board of trustees will vote on how much more money can be allocated towards this fee, but organizations seeking more money will have to petition to the Student Activity and Service Fee Advisory Committee to receive a portion of this money. This process will likely continue through mid-spring semester.
Recordings of the town halls as well as any presentation materials will be available after the meetings on the Office of Budget and Planning’s website.