Comments about ‘Brigham Young University plans 2010 tuition hike’

Now before this message board is flooded with anti-mormon comments about how it is unfair that non-mormons pay twice as much tuition to attend... Don't forget that the Mormons who attend BYU pay 10% of their income in tithing for their entire lives!!!

I'm glad I've ended this argument before it started!!

I will go out on a limb and venture a guess that the tuition rates will continue to increase with each passing year. The "great Recession" is going to end up doing a great deal of damage to family budgets everywhere, rising tuition rates and rising prices on everything are already taking a terrible toll on people all across this country. I don't personally see any positive outcome to all the price increases, once the recession is over sadly the "new higher prices" in place will not be lowered and people will simply end up having to pay much higher prices for education or food the rent etc. That is the downside of a recession ending that many people don't stop to consider, prices rise during a recession to new levels and then don't go back down to the old levels. The recession is going to one day end yet the damage that this will have done to this country will scar this country for many, many years to come. The recovery is going to be very slow and millions will have lost jobs and homes and end up paying more.

Wow, tuition's so cheap at the Y. At UCLA I'm paying 40,000 a year . . . as an undergrad!

BYU tuition could triple, and it would still be a steal compared to other comparable institutions.

Um, I think you just started the argument.

boooo!

Gee what a surprise that they are rising it AGAIN!! when will it end? Pretty soon they will raise it so that kids can not afford to go to College, Wait ago BYU,

950 dollars in 1991....My last semester was 1380... After professional school which was around 20,000 a semester, I realized what a deal BYU was. The undergrad was 4000 per semester for instate tuition where I went to professional school!

3% increase is very modest. My professional school tuition increased 11% each of my last 3 years (2000-2003)! OUCH. Education is an investment. Its return is much higher than what is invested.

The phrase is "Way to go", not "Wait ago".

College is not for everyone

WhY is this news? BYU has raised their tuition rates every year since 2003. They didn't from 2001 to 2002 due to the problems following 9-11. In 2002 I was paying about $1,500/semester and you could see what the rates are now. They also increase fees and rental prices every year.

My undergrad was at BYU. For my graduate program at Notre Dame, the tuition is currently $38,860 per year. BYU students have it awfully good.

Actual it is unfair that members pay that amount. There are enough members that want to go there and since it is a private instituion it should be much more expensive than it is. Guess what anonymous the mormon students at other schools pay that 10% as well. As far as comparable that depends on the program. BYU does charge more for its better programs but believe it or not many of its programs are inferior to the same program at other schools that BYU folks think are inferior.

Before your next post, you may want to spend a little money on an economics class or two.

Today they had a related article on the most expensive Universities in the US. All had 3-4% increases in their tuition this year. Pretty standard.

$1200 tuition per semester back in the 90's and a six figure income today (that's before the decimal UU grads). Great investment--and I willingly pay my tithes and taxes.

But please BYU, if you cut the grounds staff by about half and mow the lawn only when it needs to be mowed, I would estimate the savings to be in the millions annually.

Just open your eyes and look around a little at tuition rates across the country. My friend is getting his MBA at Notre Dame and he pays $40k a year compared to BYU's $9k/year. I have other friends paying similar amounts just for their undergrads. BYU is extremely affordable!

You Figure It Out...

You're kidding right? This is the least expensive private tuition (and much less than MANY state schools) in the nation! Let alone the fact that it is one of the best schools around (e.g., regular ranked in the top 10 for business programs).

If state schools like UCLA are $20k per semester just to keep the lights on, as a tithe payer, I sort of wish they would raise it even more (and yes, I have two kids there myself...)

I think I prefer "Wait ago."

Kind of like a "moo point" (It's like what a cow says, it just doesn't matter, it's moo.)

Would have liked to see some price comparisons to other institutions. What do University of Utah students pay? How about other private institutions - Notre Dame, Temple. I don't know why BYU is not rated among the best values in education every year. It is almost as if US News and World Report does not believe tuition is $2,500, not $25,000.

Great school, great value (as long as you can put up with those 5% of BYU students that everyone hates.)

BYU is biased against non members, just look at the tuition, it's designed in my opinion to lure members of the church only to the Y. They don't want non members, they want only members whose parents pay for their whole education.