The Wyoming Community College Commission announced that it will not increase tuition for the state’s eight community colleges for the upcoming year, Gillette News Record reports.
This decision comes after five years of maintaining the tuition rate at $105 per credit hour for in-state students.
The recommendation to keep tuition unchanged was put forth by college presidents and the Wyoming Community College Trustees Association. Dr. Brad Tyndall, president of Central Wyoming College and current president of the college presidents, presented this recommendation during the commission’s meeting held at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs.
Don Erickson, a trustee at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne and president of the Wyoming Association of Community College Trustees, also supported the proposal to retain the existing tuition rate.
Under the current structure, in-state students will continue to pay $105 per credit hour, while students participating in the Western Undergraduate Exchange (and those from Nebraska) will be charged $158 per credit hour. Out-of-state and international students will maintain a tuition rate of $315 per credit hour.
