BU raising tuition 3.75%
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This article was published 22/05/2019 (2510 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Brandon University students will have to shell out more money for tuition this year after the university received less funding from the provincial government.
Tuition for domestic students and international students is increasing by 3.75 per cent to offset the reduction. In addition, returning undergraduate international students will now pay 2.5 times what a Canadian student would pay and new international students will pay 3.7 times that amount.
The decrease in funding is what they were expecting, said Scott Lamont, vice-president administration and finance at Brandon University. The university received $39,546,372 in total.
“We had come to the conclusion that was likely where it was going to end up,” Lamont said. “The main grant itself is down one per cent from what it was last year, (so) there’s a $380,000 decrease in operating grant.”
The funding is made up of an operating grant of $37,773,372, Campus Manitoba amount of $955,000, $488,000 for renovations to buildings on campus, and $330,000 for smaller repairs and equipment replacement on campus.
Although the total revenue the university has available is slightly more than it has been in previous years, expenses have also gone up.
“Salaries have gone up, inflation for utilities, paper, and whatnot that you buy have all gone up,” Lamont said. “So if funding stays the same, other things have gone up, the net effect is a decrease, so the university inevitably has to work its way through.”
Five positions in each faculty have been left vacant for a year to help cut costs.
They have part-time instructors who will come in and teach, as well as some term positions that come up to try to make sure that the courses that have to be taught are taught, Lamont said.
“We try to find a less expensive way of dealing with it in that particular year in order to do what we need to do and live within our resources.”
The positions are left vacant for a year, but will be filled again in the next year, so that operations or particular programs within the university are not permanently affected, Lamont said.
They’ve also added a couple of positions in this year, including a bio safety officer to help with scientific research, and another position in their research office that was formerly a single position.
“Because the amount of research being done at the university is increasing,” Lamont said. “And, we need additional capacity as well as if anything happens to that particular person.”
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