Editor’s note: A version of this story was published online in The Wichitan, the student news site for Midwestern State University.
MSU Texas is seeking tuition increases for some new and all future students to fund campus-wide pay raises.
President Stacia Haynie will propose the increase at the next Texas Tech Board of Regents meeting taking place Thursday and Friday in Lubbock.
This is the university’s first tuition increase in four years. Midwestern State University is maintaining its focus on student and staff recruitment and retention just over halfway through the fall semester.
Who might pay more at MSU Texas?
The proposed 3.4% tuition increase will affect two groups: incoming fall 2024 students who did not opt in to fix their tuition and new students beginning in spring 2025, going forward into future semesters.
Current sophomores, juniors and seniors will be exempt from the tuition increase.
Texas state law mandates that public universities allow students to fix their tuition, and the university automatically opted-in students who came to MSU before fall 2024.