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Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
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Phone: (410) 516-7160
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March 8, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:
Dennis O'Shea
(410) 516-7160,
dro@jhu.edu
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Key Johns Hopkins Tuition Rate to Rise 4.3
Percent
Tuition for full-time undergraduates in The Johns Hopkins
University's
schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering will climb 4.3
percent this
fall, the smallest increase in percentage terms since the early
1980s.
The $980 increase, to $23,660 from the current $22,680, was
approved by
the university's board of trustees at its February meeting. It
also applies
to Ph.D. candidates in all divisions of the university and to
many other
full-time Hopkins graduate students.
A relatively small number of full-time students in some
divisions,
however, are charged tuition on a different scale. All full-time
Peabody
Conservatory students, for instance – both undergraduate and
graduate –
will see a 4.8 percent increase to $21,700. Undergraduate and MSN
candidates at the School of Nursing will pay $17,250, a 3 percent
increase.
The university's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
is holding
its tuition increase for master's degree and other non-doctoral
students to
3 percent or less for the fourth year in a row. Full-time SAIS
tuition this
fall will go up $600, or 2.8 percent, to $21,800.
M.D. students at the School of Medicine pay the same tuition in
each of their four years at Hopkins. The rate for entering
students this fall will be $26,000, a 4 percent increase. (A
complete list of next year's full-time and part-time tuition
rates in all divisions is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/1999/mar0899/tuition.html)
The 1999-2000 academic year will be the ninth in the past 10 in
which the
rate of increase in the benchmark tuition has declined. It will
be the
third straight with significantly less than a 5 percent boost in
that
price. Previously, the benchmark tuition had climbed at around 5
percent a
year for four consecutive years, and between 6 percent and 16
percent a
year for the eight years before that.
"The university continues to be very concerned about the increase
in
costs," said Herbert L. Kessler, dean of the Krieger School of
Arts and
Sciences. "The trustees have made it very clear, and we support
this, that
our rate of increase has to slow."
In fact, Kessler and Whiting School of Engineering Dean Ilene
Busch-Vishniac hope to keep the increase in next year's total
costs for
their undergraduates – tuition, plus room and board – below 4
percent. That
figure will not be final, however, until the trustees act on it
later this
spring.
"The real challenge is to control tuition without impacting
quality,"
Busch-Vishniac said. "Working hard at both fund raising and
budget control,
we are able to keep our increase in tuition to a reasonable
level."
Last May, the trustees voted to make endowment for financial aid
a top
priority for the last two years of the Johns Hopkins Initiative
fund-raising campaign. In November, the university announced that
part of a
$45 million gift from trustee chairman Michael Bloomberg will
allow Hopkins
to increase scholarship aid to next year's Arts and
Sciences/Engineering
freshman class by 25 percent.
Beginning next year, Hopkins also will increase grant assistance
to
current undergraduates in those schools, to ensure that their
debt load at
graduation does not exceed that of this year's seniors. The exact
amount of
increased aid has not yet been determined.
Federal antitrust law prohibits universities from exchanging
advance
information on tuition, so it is not yet clear how the
university's
1999-2000 charges will compare to those at most other private
universities.
This year, however, Hopkins undergraduate tuition is anywhere
from about
$200 to about $1,300 lower than all eight Ivy League schools, the
University of Chicago, Duke, MIT and Brandeis. Total costs at
Johns Hopkins
range from about $50 to about $1,400 below those same schools.
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