{"id":67490,"date":"2026-05-28T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=67490"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:27:52","slug":"florida-poly-raises-fees-for-non-resident-students-to-meet-state-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/florida-poly-raises-fees-for-non-resident-students-to-meet-state-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Poly raises fees for non-resident students to meet state rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"a5b2ba\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/download-2-11.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67491 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #a5b2ba; aspect-ratio:1.502860558449321;width:512px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida Polytechnic University is moving forward with a <strong>15% increase in out-of-state tuition and fees<\/strong>, a change driven by a state rule requiring non-resident students to fully cover the cost of their instruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The university&#8217;s Board of Trustees evaluated the proposal to align with the Florida Board of Governors Regulation 7.001, which mandates that out-of-state fees must be high enough to offset the actual cost of educating those students so local tax dollars aren&#8217;t subsidizing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is how the rates break down per credit hour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Undergraduate Out-of-State:<\/strong> Increases from <strong>$510 to $586.50<\/strong> (a $76.50 bump per credit hour).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Graduate Out-of-State:<\/strong> Increases from <strong>$608 to $699.20<\/strong> (a $91.20 bump per credit hour).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who Is (and Isn&#8217;t) Affected?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In-State Students:<\/strong> This change does <strong>not<\/strong> affect Florida residents.<sup><\/sup> In-state tuition remains completely frozen, keeping with Florida&#8217;s long-standing cap on local tuition hikes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This adjustment is part of a broader, statewide trend. Because Florida public university tuition has been frozen across the board for over a decade, its out-of-state tuition has fallen significantly below the national average. The State Board of Governors authorized public universities to raise non-resident rates by up to 15% to help schools address rising operational costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to university administrators, the extra revenue generated from the out-of-state increase will be funneled directly back into academic programs, instructional technology, and student support services.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Polytechnic University is moving forward with a 15% increase in out-of-state tuition and fees, a change driven by a state rule requiring non-resident students to fully cover the cost&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDVcL2Rvd25sb2FkLTItMTEud2VicD9maXQ9Mjc1JTJDMTgzJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiRmxvcmlkYSBQb2x5IHJhaXNlcyBmZWVzIGZvciBub24tcmVzaWRlbnQgc3R1ZGVudHMgdG8gbWVldCBzdGF0ZSBydWxlIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.kB7A-pi_NnAVq0oh1ju5KD5Q4Du4_QtDZ8OJ2XzgbjwMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA1XC9kb3dubG9hZC0yLTExLndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJGbG9yaWRhIFBvbHkgcmFpc2VzIGZlZXMgZm9yIG5vbi1yZXNpZGVudCBzdHVkZW50cyB0byBtZWV0IHN0YXRlIHJ1bGUiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.tJB-Wfu0HaMSEmxV3va7_nZKEmxhP16rxmHUY7WtUGQMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[14710],"class_list":["post-67490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-florida-poly-raises-fees-for-non-resident-students-to-meet-state-rule"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67492,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67490\/revisions\/67492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}