Changes in undergraduate tuition structure
Wisconsin reciprocity & nonresident students
The University of Minnesota implemented two changes in its tuition policies and practices for undergraduate students that began with new students matriculating in fall 2008.
The Wisconsin Reciprocity Supplemental Grant is only for students who were admitted prior to fall 2012 and enrolled for spring 2012.
- New Wisconsin reciprocity students are now assessed the Minnesota resident rate, but also receive a reciprocity grant funded by the state of Wisconsin. Current Wisconsin reciprocity students continue to pay the rates they would be charged at a comparable University of Wisconsin campus (e.g., Wisconsin students on the Twin Cities campus will continue to be assessed the Madison campus rates).
- New undergraduate students on the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses from outside the North Dakota/South Dakota/Wisconsin reciprocity region now are assessed a nonresident tuition rate that is significantly lower than the nonresident rate prior to fall 2008.
- For students on the Duluth campus the new annual rate will be the Minnesota resident rate plus $2,510 (or plus $1255 per semester).
- For students on the Twin Cities campus the annual rate as of fall 2008 was the Minnesota resident rate plus $4,300.
- Nonresident students who enrolled prior to fall 2008 continue to be charged a higher rate, but most will also continue to receive the University waivers, scholarships, and grants that reduce this rate significantly. All continuing nonresident students also continue to be eligible for other scholarships and grants.
- Midwest Exchange Program (MSEP) students who enrolled fall 2008 or after pay the new nonresident rate, as that rate is less than the MSEP rate.
It is important to understand that this change for nonresident students was a change in systems, from the system of a higher tuition rate that was discounted in some way for most nonresident students to a simpler system with a lower tuition rate, with much less discounting.
More than 75 percent of the undergraduate students on the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses from outside the reciprocity area receive a significant discount from the University in the form of waivers, scholarships, and grants. Some others are strongly supported by third parties.
