Regents consider tuition increases early as legislation banning rate hikes advances

Proposal would impose 3 percent bumps at UI, ISU, UNI

IOWA CITY — Months earlier than usual — per legislation passed last year and with new legislation advancing to prohibit tuition increases — Iowa’s Board of Regents on Tuesday proposed rate hikes for the 2026-27 academic year aimed at addressing “uncertainty surrounding other primary revenue sources.”

According to the tuition proposal going before the Board of Regents for a first reading next week, all three of Iowa’s public universities would impose a 3-percent rate bump for undergraduate and graduate students from Iowa — along with varying increases for out-of-state students and those in costlier programs…

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