Tuition Going Up At SCSU, SCTCC This Fall

(KNSI) – Students at St. Cloud State University and St. Cloud Technical and Community College will pay more for tuition come fall.

The Board of Trustees of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities approved its fiscal year 2027 operating budget on Wednesday, which includes tuition increases across all 33 schools in the system. SCSU and SCTCC are both part of Minnesota State.

According to figures from the system, annual full-time undergraduate tuition at SCSU will go from $9,385 to $9,960, an increase of $575 or 6.13%. At SCTCC, tuition will rise from $5,607 to $5,964, an increase of $357 or 6.37%.

System-wide, the average undergraduate tuition increase is 6.25%.

The board says tuition is one of two main funding sources, along with legislative funding, and that Minnesota State did not receive any new operational funding from the legislature in the 2025 session. Over the last 10 years, tuition increases at Minnesota State schools have averaged less than 3% per year.

Along with the tuition hike, the board says its schools are cutting costs by closing low-interest programs, streamlining offerings, leaving open positions unfilled, freezing hiring, containing administrative costs, and delaying investments in facilities and technology.

Minnesota State schools collectively provide $76 million in private scholarships each year. The state also offers the North Star Promise scholarship program, which covers tuition at public higher education institutions for students from families earning less than $80,000 a year.

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