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Show BYU to Increase Tuition Fees Beginning 1980 Brigham Young University President Presi-dent Dallin H. Oaks has announced a $35 increase per semester in undergraduate tuition effective next fall semester which begins Sept. 2, 1980. The increase, which was approved by the BYU Board of Trustees to help meet the rising costs of operating the 26,000 student university, univer-sity, brings the total to $485 per semester for undergraduate students. Graduate and advanced student stuition will be increased from $500 to $54o and Graduate School of Management tuition from $645 to $695, and Law School tuition from $825 to $890 sper semester, President Presi-dent Oaks said. These rates apply to students who are members of the LDs Church, which owns and operates BYU. As in the past, non-LDS students will pay one and a half times the standard rate in every tuition category. Tuition for spring and summer terms will be one half the semester-rate. semester-rate. President Oaks said the University, Universi-ty, like other institutions of higher learning, is feeling the pressure of inflation, in-flation, but in spite of the tuition increases, in-creases, the cost of an education at BYU remains about 70 percent less than the average of some 700 private colleges and universities across the nation. He noted that BYU's tuition increase in-crease of 7.8 percent is significantly less than the national inflation rate of about 13 percent. "We are doing all we can to keep tuition increases to a minimu, but find that we must pass a portion of the rising costs on 'o students, President Oaks said. 1 |